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HON. HENRY ELDERKIN JEWETT BOARDMAN
FIRST PRESIDENT
Manual and Year Book
OF THE
Iowa Society of the
Sons of the American Jxe volution
1901
NATIONAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONS, HISTORICAL
MEMORANDA AND SKETCHES OF THE SERVICES
OF THEIR REVOLUTIONARY ANCESTORS.
COMPILED BY
EIvBRIDGE DREW HADLEY
secretary"
DES MOINES, IOWA
PUBLISHED BY THE SOCIETY
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CONTENTS
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Officers of the National Society for 1900 4
Constitution of the National Society 5
Sketch of the Organization of the State Society 15
Officers of the Iowa Society Year by Year , 18
Constitution of the Iowa Society 25
Chapters and their Officers 30
Compatriots of the Spanish-American War 31
List of Members and Records of Ancestors 32
Memorial Page 165
Index of Revolutionary Ancestors 166
NATIONAL SOCIETY
OF THE
Sons of the American Revolution
0FFICER5==i900.
President General
Gen. J. C. Breckenridge, U. S. A.
Vice-Presidents General
Gen. Thos. M. Anderson, U. S. A.
Hon. James H, Gilbert Illinois
Gen. Francis H. Appleton Massachusetts
Hon, Howard De Haven Ross Delaware
Hon, E. S. Greeley Connecticut
Secretary General
Capt. Samuel Eberly Gross . . 604 Masonic Temple, Chicago, 111.
Treasurer General
Mr. Cornelius Amory Pugsley . 12 W. 122 St., New York City
Registrar General
Mr. A. Howard Clark, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D. C.
Historian General
Gen. Theodore S. Peck Burlington, Vt.
Chaplain General
Rev. Ethelbert D. Warfield, D, D Easton, Pa.
CONSTITUTION
OF THE
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE S0N5 OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
ARTICLE I.— Name.
The name of this Society shall be "The Sons of the American
Revolution."
ARTICLE II.— Objects.
The objects of this Society shall be to perpetuate the memory of
the men who by their services or sacrifices during the war of the
American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American
people; to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants;
to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound
reverence for the principles of the government founded by our fore-
fathers; to encourage historical research in relation to the American
Revolution; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual
services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics and
landmarks; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropriate
memorials; to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent events
of the war; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend the
institutions of American freedom, and to carry out the purposes ex-
pressed in the Preamble to the Constitution of our Country, and the
injunctions of Washington in his Farewell Address to the American
people.
ARTICLE III.— Membership.
Section 1. Any member shall be eligible to membership in this
Society who, being of the age of twenty-one years or over, and a
citizen of good repute in the community, is the lineal descendant of
an ancestor who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to and
rendered actual service in the cause of American Independence, either
as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman or minute-man, in
the armed forces of the Continental Congress or of any one of the
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several Colonies or States; or as a signer of the Declaration of
Independence; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Corres-
pondence; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial or Colonial
Congress or Legislature; or as a civil officer either of one of the
colonies or states, or of the national government; or as a recognized
patriot who performed actual service by overt acts of resistance to
the authority of Great Britain.
Section 2. Applications for membership shall be made to any
State Society, in duplicate, upon blank forms prescribed by the Gen-
eral Board of Managers, and shall in each case set forth the name,
occupation and residence of the applicant, line of descent, and the
name, residence and services of his ancestor or ancestors in the
Revolution, from whom he derives eligibility. The applicant shall
make oath that the statements of his application are true to the
best of hi,s knowledge and belief. Upon the approval of an applica-
tion by the State Society, to which it is made, one copy shall be
transmitted to the Registrar General of the National Society; who
shall examine further the eligibility of the applicant. If satisfied
that the member is not eligible, he shall return the application for
correction. And in case of such return the State Society shall, on
failure to satisfy the Registrar General o'' the eligibility of such ap-
plicant, drop his name from membership.
Section 3. The official designation of the members of the Society
of the Sons of the American Revolution shall be "Compatriots."
ARTICLE IV. — National and State Societies.
Section 1. The National Society shall embrace all the members
of the State Societies of the Sons of the American Revolution no'w
existing or which may hereafter be established under this Consti-
tution.
Section 2. Whenever in any State or Territory in which a State
Society does not exist, or in which a State Society has become in-
active or failed for two years to pay its annual dues to the National
Society, fifteen or more persons duly qualified for membership in
this Society may associate themselves as a State Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, and organize in accordance with this
Constitution, they may be admitted by the General Board of Man-
agers to the National Society a,s "The Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution," and shall thereafter have exclusive
local jurisdiction in the State or Territory or in the District in which
they are organized, subject to the provisions of this Constitution;
but this provision shall not be construed so as to exclude the ad-
mission of member.s living in other States.
Section 3. Each State Society shall judge of the qualifications
of its members and of those proposed for membership, subject to
the provisions of this Constitution, and shall regulate all matters
pertaining to its own affairs. It ishall have authority to establish
local chapters within its own jurisdiction and to endow the chapters
with such power as it may deem proper, not inconsistent with this
Constitution. It shall have authority, after due notice and impartial
trial, to expel any member who, by conduct unbecoming a gentle-
man, shall render himself unworthy to remain a member of the
Society.
Section 4. Each State Society shall submit to the Annual Con-
gress of the National Society a report, setting forth by name the
additions, transfers and deaths, and any other changes in the mem-
bership and progress of the State Society during the preceding year,
and make such suggestions as it shall deem proper for the promo-
tion of the objects of the whole Order.
Section 5. Whenever a member in good standing in his Society
changes his residence from the jurisdiction of the State Society of
which he is a member to that of another, he shall be entitled, if he
So elects, to a certificate of honorable dismission from his own State
Society, in order that he may be transferred to the State Society
to whose jurisdiction he has changed his residence; provided, that his
membership shall continue in the former until he shall have been
elected a member of the latter. Each State Society shall, however,
retain full control of the admission of members by transfer.
Section 6. Whenever the word "State" occurs in this Constitu-
tion, it shall be held to include within its meaning the District of
Columbia anc^ the Territories of the United States.
Section 7. A Society may be formed in any foreign country by
fifteen or more persons who are eligible to membership under this
Constitution, which shall bear the same relation to the National or-
ganization as the State Society, subject to the provisions of this
Constitution.
ARTICLE v.— Ofllcers and Managers.
Section 1. The General Officers of the National Society shall be
a President General, five Vice-Presidents General, a Secretary Gen-
eral, Treasurer General, Registrar General, Historian General and
Chaplain General, who shall be elected by ballot by a vote of the
majority of the members present at the annual meeting of the Con-
gress of the National Society, and shall hold office for one year and
until their successors are elected; Provided, that the President Gen-
eral and five Vice-Presidents General shall not be elected for a sec-
ond term.
Section 2. The General Officers, together with the Presidents of
the State Societies ex-officio, shall constitute the General Board of
Managers of the National Society, which Board shall have authority
to adopt and promulgate the By-Laws of the National Society, to pre-
scribe the duties of the General Officers, to provide the seal, to
designate and make regulations for the issue of the insignia, and
to transact the general business of the National Society during the
intervals between the sessions of the Congress. Meetings of the
General Board may be held, after not less than ten days notice, at
the call of the President General, or, in case of his absence or in-
ability, at the call of the Senior Vice-President General, certified
by the Secretary General. Meetings shall be called at the request of
seven members. At such meetings seven shall constitute a quorum.
Section 3. An Executive Committee of seven, of whom the Presi-
dent General shall be Chairman, may be elected by the Board of
Managers, which Committee shall, in the interim between the meet-
ings of the Board transact such business as may be delegated to it
by the Board of Managers.
ARTICLE VI.— Dues.
Each State Society shall pay annually to the Treasurer General,
to defray the expenses of the National Society, twenty-flve cents for
each active member thereof, unless intermitted by the National Con-
gress, provided that the National Board of Management may increase
said dues at any time, not to exceed fifty cents in all, by a two-thirds
vote, when the necessities of the National Society so demand. All
such dues shall be paid on or before the first day of April in each
year for the ensuing year, in order to secure representation in the
Congress of the National Society.
ARTICLE VII.— Meetings and Elections.
Section 1. The annual Congress of the National Society for the
election of the General Officers and for the transaction of business
shall be held on the 30th day of April or on the first day of May in
every year. The time, hour and place of such meeting shall bel desig-
nated by the Board of Managers.
Section 2. Special meetings of the Congress may be called by the
President General, and shall be called by him when directed so to
do by the Board of Managers or whenever requested in writing so
to do by at least five State Societies, on giving thirty days' notice.
specifying the time and place of such meeting and the business to be
transacted.
Section 3. The following shall be members of all such annual or
special meetings of the Congress, and shall be entitled to vote therein:
(1) All the officers and the ex-President General of the National
Society.
(2) The President and Senior Vice-President of each State So-
ciety.
(3) One delegate at large from each State Society.
(4) One delegate for every fifty members of the Society within
a State and for a fraction of twenty-five or over.
Section 4. State Societies shall only be represented at meetings
of the National Society by members of their own State Society, or by
members of other State Societies who may be designated by the
regularly appointed delegates from such State Society who may be
present at any meeting of the National Society; and that the dele-
gates representing any State Society, as provided herein, shall be
authorized to cast the entire vote to which such State Society is
entitled, each delegate or representative present being authorized to
cast his proportionate vote, or fraction thereof.
ARTICLE VIII.— Amendments.
This Constitution may be altered or amended at any meeting of
the Congress of the National Society provided that sixty days' notice
of the proposed alterations or amendments, which shall first have
been recommended by a State Society, shall be sent by the Secre-
tary General to the President of each State Society. A vote of
two -thirds of those present shall be necessary to their adoption.
BY-LAWS
OF THE
NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE SONS OF THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION.
ARTICLE I.— Election of Officers.
All nominations of officers shall be made from the floor, and the
election shall be by ballot. A majority shall elect. The nomina-
tions may be acted upon directly, or may be referred to a commit-
tee to examine and report.
ARTICLE II.— Officers.
The duties of the General Officers shall be such as usually ap-
pertain to their offices, and they shall have such other duties as are
hereinafter imposed. They shall repoi't at the annual meeting, and
at such other times as they may be required to do ,so by the General
Board of Managers.
ARTICLE III.— President General.
Section 1. The President General, in addition to his general
duties, shall be ex-officio chairman of the General Board of Man-
agers and of the Executive Committee and a member of every other
committee.
Section 2. At each annual meeting he shall appoint the follow-
ing Standing Committees:
Committee on Auditing.
Correspondence,
Credentials.
" Finance,
Organization,
Unfinished Business.
The duties of the above committees shall be such as usually per-
tain to committees of like character, and such as may be defined by
the Board of Managers.
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ARTICLE IV.— Vice-President General.
Section 1. In the absence of the President General the Senior
Vice-President General present shall preside at the Annual Meeting.
Section 2. In the prolonged absence or inability to act of the
President General, the executive authority shall be vested in the
Vice-President General first in order of precedence.
ARTICLE v.— Secretary General.
The Secretary General, in addition to his general duties, shall
have charge of ,the seal, give due notice of all meetings of the
National Society or General Board of Managers, of which he shall
be ex-officio a member. He shall give due notice to all general of-
ficers and State Societies of all votes, orders and proceedings affect-
ing or appertaining to their duties. He shall distribute all pamphlets,
circulars, rosettes and supplies, as directed by the General Board of
Managers.
ARTICLE VI.— Treasurer General.
Section 1. The Treasurer General shall collect and receive the
funds and securities of the National Society. He shall deposit the
same to the credit of the "Sons of American Revolution," and shall
draw them thence for the use of the National Society, as directed
by it or by the General Board of Managers, upon the order of the
President General, countersigned by the Secretary General. His
accounts shall be audited by a committee to be appointed at the
Annual Meeting.
Section 2. He shall, if so required by the General Board of Man-
agers or the Executive Committee, give bonds for the safe custody
and application of the funds.
ARTICLE VII.— Registrar General.
The Registrar General shall keep a Register of the names and
dates of the election, resignation or death of all members of the
several State Societies, and shall have the care and custody of all
duplicate applications for membership. He shall issue, upon the
requisition of the Secretary or Registrar of the several >. State So-
cieties, certificates of membership and insignia to every member
entitled thereto, through such Secretary or Registrar.
ARTICLE VIII.— Historian General.
The Historian General shall have the custody oi; all the historical
and biographical collection of which the National Society may be-
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come possessed, and shall catalogue and arrange the same, and shall
place the same in a fireproof repository for preservation.
ARTICLE IX.— Chaplain General.
The Chaplain General shall be a regularly ordained minister, and
shall open and close all general meetings of the National Society
with the services usual and proper on such occasions.
ARTICLE X.— State Societies.
Every State Society shall —
(1) Notify the Secretary General of the election and appoint-
ment'of all officers and delegates.
(2) Pay to the Treasurer General on the first day of March, or
vsrithin sixty days thereafter, the sum of twenty-five cents for each
active member thereof.
(3) Transmit to the Registrar General duplicate applications of
all accepted members, and notify him of the resignation or death
of all members thereof.
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ARTICLE XL— General Board of Managers.
Section 1. The General Board of Managers shall prepare and
carry out plans for promoting the objects and growth of the Society;
shall generally superintend its interests, and shall execute such other
duties as shall be committed to it at any meeting of the National
Society. It shall have charge of the printing of the Diploma and
the manufacturing of the Insignia, and shall determine the price at
which the same shall be issued.
Section 2. It shall have authority to admit or recognize as a
State Society any association of fourteen or more persons duly
qualified for membership in the Society.
Section 3. It shall have power to fill any vacancy occurring
among the General Officers, and an officer so elected shall act until
the following annual election and until his successor shall be elected.
Section 4. It shall have authority to make, alter and amend the
By-Laws as hereinafter provided.
Section 5. The President General may call meetings of the Gen-
eral Board of Managers at any time he may deem necessary, and
shall call such meeting upon the written request of any five mem-
bers thereof, provided that not less than five days' notice of the
time and place of such meeting shall be given.
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ARTICLE XII.— Executive Committee.
The President General may call a meeting of the Executive Com-
mittee at any time, and shall call such meeting on the written re-
quest of three members thereof.
ARTICLE XIII.— Seal.
The seal of the Society shall be two and three-eighths of an inch
in diameter, charged -Vith the figure of a minute-man, grasping a
musket in hi,s right hand, and surrounded by a constellation of
thirteen stars, who shall be depicted in the habit of a husbandman
of the period of the American Revolution, and as in the act of de-
serting the plough for the service of his country; the whole encircled
by a band three-eighths of an inch wide, within which shall appear
the legend, "National Society of the Sons of the American Revolu-
tion, organized April 30, 1889."
ARTICLE XIV.— Certificates.
All members of the Society, wherever admitted, shall be entitled
to a certificate of membership duly attested by the President Gen-
eral, Secretary General and Registrar General, countersigned by the
President, Secretary and Registrar of the State Society to which
such member shall have been admitted.
ARTICLE XV.— Insignia.
The insignia of the Society shall comprise (1) a cross surmounted
by an eagle in gold, (2) a rosette.
Section 1. The cross shall be of silver, with four arms, covered
with white enamel and eight gold points, same size as Chevaliers'
Cross of the Legion of Honor of France, with a gold medallion in
the center bearing on the obverse a bust of Washington in profile,
and on the reverse the figure of a minute-man, surrounded by a
ribbon enameled blue, with the motto: "Libertas et Patria" on the
obverse, and the legend "Sons of the American Revolution" on the
reverse, both in letters of gold. The cross shall be surmounted by
an eagle in gold, and the whole decoration suspended from a ring
of gold by a ribbon of deep blue with white and buff edges, and
may be worn by any member of the Society on ceremonial occa-
sions only, and shall be carried on the left breast, or at the collar
if an officer of the National Society, or the President, active or past,
of a State Society.
Section 2. The rosette shall be seven-sixteenths of an inch in
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diameter, of usual pattern, displaying the colors of the Society, blue,
white and buff, and may be worn by all members at discretion in
the upper left-hand button-hole of the coat.
ARTICLE XVI.— Indebtedness.
No debts shall be contracted on behalf of the National Society.
Every obligation for the payment of money, except checks drawn
against deposits, executed in the name or on behalf of the National
Society shall be null and void.
ARTICLE XVII.— Amendments.
These By-Laws may be altered or amended by a vote of three-
fourths of the members present at any meeting of the General Boai-d
of Managers, notice thereof having been given at a previous meeting.
ORGANIZATION OF THE IOWA SOCIETY.
Public request having been made through the newspaper
press that all gentlemen in Iowa who were descended from
soldiers of the Revolution should make themselves known, and
notice to such as responded having been given by Hon. H. E.
J. Boardman of Marshalltown, through his efforts a meeting
preliminary to the organization of a State Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution was held on the 6th day of July,
/1893, in the Horticultural Rooms at the Iowa State Capitol
Building at Des Moines, Iowa.
The meeting was called to order at 10:30 A. M. by Hon.
H. E. J. Boardman of Marshalltown, who in a brief address
stated the object of the meeting. Franklin G. Pierce of
Marshalltown was elected Secretary.
A committee of three, of which Mr. Boardman should be
chairman, was directed to be appointed by the chair "to take
the names of the prospective members, and so far as possible to
look into their qualifications for membership."
The chair named as the other members of that committee
O. W. Munsell of Des Moines and W. H. H. Asbury of Ot-
tumwa.
The following gentlemen were present at this meeting :
R. D. McGeehon. J. H. Strong,
Atlantic. Des Moines.
O. W. Munsell, F. D. Hussey.
Des Moines. Des Moines.
L. S. Kilborn, H. E. J. Boardman,
Marshalltown. Marshalltown.
T. F. Bradford, F. G. Pierce,
Marshalltown. Marshalltown.
W. H. H. Asbury, Ottumwa.
The meeting then adjourned to meet at 2 :oo o'clock P. M.
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The meeting re-convened at 2:30 P. M., and the committee
reported names of thirty-one persons who "have made such
present or temporary showing as to be eligible to vote and
take part in the temporary organization."
The report was adopted.
The following temporary officers were then elected, viz :
Hon. H. E. J. Boardman President.
J. H. Strong Vice President.
F. G. Pierce Secretary.
O. W. Mimsell Treasurer.
A committee consisting of J. R. Sage, Peter A. Dey and J.
11. Keatley was appointed to draft a Constitution and By-
Laws.
A committee consisting of the President, Vice President
and Secretary was appointed to pass upon questions of eligi-
bility.
The officers were instructed to prepare a circular stating the
objects of the Society and the qualifications of members, and
send several copies to each of the temporary members.
Adjourned, to meet at the Iowa State Capitol Building at
10:00 A. M., September 5, 1893.
At the meeting held at the same place on the 5th day of
September, 1893, the committee on Credentials reported a
recommendation for the admission of the following persons
as members, viz :
R. D. McGeehon x\tlantic.
Samuel Berry Evans Ottumwa.
Frank Ashley Millard Burlington.
W. I-I. H. Asbury OttumAva.
D. C. Mott What Cheer.
Tram Allen Sawyer Keokuk.
Jlenry E. J. Boardman Marshalltown.
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Theoderic F. Bradford Marshalltown.
Franklin Oilman Pierce Marshalltown.
Charles E. Boardman Marshalltown.
Charles H. E. Boardman Marshalltown.
Orson W. Munsell Des Moines.
Albert Strong VVinterset.
W. P. Hepburn Clarinda.
Stephen B. Packard Marshalltown.
W. H. Bremner Marshalltown
Levi B. Raymond .Hampton.
S. Lincoln Kilborn.
John R. Sage Des Moines.
Charles D. Shepard Gilbert Station.
Timothy Hunt Grinnell.
Frank S. Hunt Dubuque.
Erastus B. Soper Emmetsburg.
Edward H. Hazen Pes Moines.
Edmund M. Vittum Grinnell.
The report was adopted.
A Constitution was then adopted, and permanent officers
w^re elected as appears elsewhere, who held office until
January 15, 1895.
A vote was passed that all applicants whose cases shall be
favorably acted upon by February 22, 1894, be considered
charter members.
The organization being completed, the meeting adjourned
sine die.
THE IOWA SOCIETY
OF THE
Sons of the American Revolution
OFFICERS==September, 1893, to January 15, 1895
President
Henry Klderkin Jewett Boardman ........ Marshalltown
Vice-President
Levi Beardsley Raymond • . Hampton
Secretary
Franklin Oilman Pierce Marshalltown
Treasurer
Erastus Burrows Soper Emmetsburg
Registrar
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Historian
Samuel Berry Evans Ottumwa
Chaplain
Rev. Edmund March Vittum Grinnell
Board of Managers
Charles Dana Shepard Gilbert Stat'n
Lucien Sedgwick Kilborn Marshalltown
William Peters Hepburn Clarinda
John Randall Sage Des Moines
OFFICERS==January, 1895, to February 19, 1896
President
Levi Beardsley Raymond Hampton
Vice-President
Albert Winfield Swalm Oskaloosa
Secretary
Charles Henry Earnest Boardman . . . . . . Marshalltown
Treasurer
Herman Knapp Ames
Registrar
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Historian
George Washington Wakefield Sioux City
Chaplain
Rev. Edmund March Vittum Grinnell
Board of Mana]i:ers
Henry Elderkin Jewett Boardman Marshalltown
Nathaniel Anson Merrell DeWitt
Joseph Henry Strong Des Moines
John Randall Sage Des Moines
William Peters Hepburn Clarinda
OFFICERS—February, 1896, to April 19, 1897
President
Albert Winfield Swalm Oskaloosa
Vice-President
Willie Cutter Wyman Ottumwa
Secretary
Charles Henry Earnest Boardman Marshalltown
Treasurer
Herman Knapp Ames
Registrar
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Historian
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Chaplain
Rev. Evarts Kent Victor
Board of Managers.
Levi Beardsley Raymond . . . Hampton
Nathaniel Anson Merrell DeWitt
Damon Noble Sprague Wapello
Eugene Secor Forest City
George Washington Wakefield Sioux City
Francis Hanmer Loring Oskaloosa
OFFICERS— April, i8q7, to April 19, I898
President
William Henry Wheeler Des Moines
Vice-President
Willie Cutter Wyman Ottumwa
Secretary
Charles Henry Earnest Boardman Marshalltown
Treasurer
Herman Knapp Ames
Registrar
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Historian
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Chaplain
Rev. Ira B. Ryan Leon
Board of Managers
George Herbert Richardson Belmond
Eugene Secor • • Forest City
Damon Noble Sprague Wapello
Charles Dana Shepard Gilbert Station
Morris William Blair Kossuth
Abraham V. Hoagland Keokuk
OFFICERS— April, 1898. to April 19, 1899
President
George Herbert Richardson Belmond
Vice-President
John Randall Sage Des Moines
Secretary
Edward Ridgway Hutchins Des Moines
Treasurer
Willard Secor Forest City
Registrar
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Historian
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Chaplain
Rev. Edmund March Vittum Grinnell
Board of Managers
William Henry Baily Des Moines
Joseph Henry Strong Des Moines
Francis Hanmer Coring Waterloo
William Henry Wheeler Des Moines
Elliott S. Miller Des Moines
OFFICERS— April, 1899, to February 21, 1900
President
Francis Hanmer Loring Waterloo
First Vice-President
William Henry Baily Des Moines
Second Vice-President
Herman Knapp Ames
Secretary
Elbridge Drew Hadley Des Moines
Treasurer
Willard Secor Forest City
Registrar- Historian
Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Chaplain
Rev. Ezra Butler Newcomb Keokuk
Board of Managers
Henry Harrison Rood Mt. Vernon
Lyman William White Woodbine
James Walker Logan Waterloo
Henry Brown Hawley Des Moines
OFFICERS— 1900
President
Hon. Damon Noble Sprague • . . Wapello
First Vice=President
Hon. William Henry Baily ......... Des Moines
Second Vice-President
Morris William Blair, Esq Kossuth
Treasurer
Willard Secor, Esq .... Forest City
Secretary
Capl. Elbridge Drew Hadley Des Moines
Assistant Secretary
Frederick Alvin Durham, Esq Des Moines
Registrar-Historian
Dr. Edward Hamlin Hazen Des Moines
Chaplain
Rev. James Balloch Chase . Ocheyedan
Additional Managers
Col. Henry Harrison Rood Mr. Vernon
Lyman William White, Esq Woodbine
James Walker Logan, Esq Waterloo
Hon. Alvin Jasper McCrary Keokuk
Representatives
DELEGATE-AT-LARGE
Henry Brown Hawley, Esq Des Moines
DELEGATE
Lyman William White, Esq Woodbine
Executive Committee
Damon Noble Sprague, President, Ex-Ofl&cio.
William Henry Baily, First Vice-President.
Elbridge Drew Hadley, Secretary.
CONSTITUTION.
ARTICLE I— Name.
The name of this Society shall be "The Iowa Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution."
ARTICLE II.— National Society.
This Society shall be a part of the National Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution. It recognizes all State Societies of Sons
of the American Revolution as co-equal and their members as our
compatriots, entitled to receive such information, assistance and fra-
ternal consideration as may best promote the objects of the Society.
ARTICLE III.— Objects.
The objects of this Society shall be to perpetuate the memory
of the men, who by their services or sacrifices during the war of the
American Revolution, achieved the independence of the American
people; to unite and promote fellowship among their descendants;
to inspire them and the community at large with a more profound
reverence lor the principles of the government founded by our fore-
fathers; to encourage historical research in relation to the Ameri-
can Revolution; to acquire and preserve the records of the individual
services of the patriots of the war, as well as documents, relics
and land-marks; to mark the scenes of the Revolution by appropri-
ate memorials; to celebrate the anniversaries of the prominent
events of the war; to foster true patriotism; to maintain and extend
the institutions of American freedom; and to carry out the pur-
poses expressed in the Preamble to the Constitution of our country
and the injunctions of Washington in his farewell address to the
American people.
ARTICLE IV.— Membership.
Section 1. Any man shall be eligible to membership in this So-
ciety, who, being a resident of the State of Iowa, of the age of
twenty-one years or over, and a citizen of good repute in the com-
munity, is the lineal descendant of an ancestor, who was at all times
unfailing in his loyalty to, and rendered actual service in the cause
of American independence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, ma-
rine, militiaman or minute-man. in the armed forces of the Conti-
nental Congress, or of any one of the several Colonies or States; or
as a signer of the Declaration ol Independence; or as a member
of a Committee of Safety or Correspondence; or as a member of any
Continental, Provincial or Colonial Congress or Legislature; or as a
civil officer, either of one of the Colonies or States or of the Na-
tional government; or as a recognized patriot who performed actual
service by overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain.
Section 2. Applications for membership shall be made to this
Society in duplicate, upon blank forms, prescribed, and shall in
each case set forth the name, occupation and residence of the ap-
plicant, his line of descent, and the name, residence and services
of his ancestors or ancestor in the Revolution, frora whom he derives
eligibility. The applicant shall make oath that the statements of
his application are true, to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Upon the approval of the application by the Board of Managers of
this Society, one copy shall be transmitted to the Registrar Gen-
eral of the National Society, who shall examine further the eligibility
of the applicant. If satisfied that the member is not eligible, he
will return the application for correction. No membership shall be
ultimately valid unless eligibility be approved by the Registrar Gen-
eral of the National Society.
Section 3. Any member may become a life member by payment
of fifty dollars into the treasury in commutation of annual dues.
ARTICLE v.— Officers.
The officers of this Society shall be a President, a First and a
Second Vice-President. Treasurer, Secretary, Registrar-Historian,
Chaplain and a Board of Managers eleven in number, including the
officers first named. Said officers shall be elected by ballot, at each
annual meeting, by a vote of a majority of the members present in
person or by written proxy from absent members, witnessed by
two witnesses, and shall hold office until the next annual meeting
and until their successors shall be elected. The President shall not
be eligible as his own successor. An Executive Committee of three,
of whom the President shall be the Chairman, may at any meeting
of the Board o' Managers be chosen from their number, which com-
mittee shall, in the interim between the meetings of the Board, trans-
act such business as may be delegated to it by the Board of Man-
agers. At the annual meeting, one delegate at large, and such other
delegates as the National Constitution authorizes, shall be elected
to attend the Annual Congress and meetings of the National Society.
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ARTICLE VI.— Powers and Duties of Officers.
The powers and duties of officers shall be such as usually pertain
to such offices, except as modified or prescribed by the Board of Man-
agers, or prescribed in the By-Laws. The Secretary may, with the
approval of the Board of Managers or Executive Committee, appoint
a compatriot to .serve as Assistant Secretary during his own pleas-
ure. The Board of Managers shall have power to fill vacancies oc-
curring during vacation, the person so appointed to hold till the next
annual meeting. Said Board shall have general supervision of the
affairs oi the Society, may authorize local chapters and may dele-
gate any of the powers to the Executive Committee, except that of
amending this Constitution, and may make By-Laws for the govern-
ment of the Society.
The Registrar-Historian shall receive the applications, examine
them, report to the Board of Managers or Executive Committee, who
shall thereupon admit or deny the applicants.
The Treasurer shall keep open books of account, give bond for
the faithful performance of his duties, which bond, when endorsed
and approved by the Board of Managers or President, shall be placed
in the custody of the Secretary.
The Board of Managers shall provide a book as a family record
and the Registrar-Historian shall enter therein the name of each
member and the family line from the ancestor; also the names, date
and place of birth of the member's wife and children with their
places of residence and such other historical particulars as may be
necessary for record reference for future generations.
ARTICLE VII.— Meetings and Elections.
The annual meeting of the Society for the election ol officers and
the transaction of business shall be held in Des Moines at such time
as the Board of Managers shall decide, and a notice of such meet-
ing shall be mailed to each member at least thirty days before the
date of meeting. The Board of Managers or Executive Committee
shall provide a room for such meeting.
Special meetings of the Society may be called by the President,
and shall be called by him when directed so to do by t^e Board of
Managers, or whenever requested by written request of ten mem-
bers. Thirty days' notice of such meeting shall be given as above
provided.
The Board of Managers shall meet at the call of the President,
and the President shall call a meeting of the Board on the written
request of five members of the Board.
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ARTICLE VIII.— Fees and Dues.
The initiation fee shall be three dollars, payable in advance with
application. The annual dues shall be two dollars, and become due
on the first day of February in each year. Any person joining shall
pay one year's dues in advance with application. A member joining
in the months of December or January and paying a year's dues in
advance shall be credited with one year's dues from the first day of
February next after applying.
The Treasurer shall pay from the treasury to the National Society
the fee required by that society for each active member. The re-
ceipts each year constituting the annual resources o:' the society shall
be devoted by the Board of Managers, to the payment of annual dues
to the National Society, clirrent expenses and publication of circulars
and other documents, also to the payment of such special expenses
as may be authorized by the Executive Committee or a majority of
the Board of Managers.
A member who shall remain in arrears two months for any dues
to the Society, may, after ten days' notice by mail, be dropped from
the rolls by the Board of Managers.
ARTICLE IX— Quorum and Rules.
Eleven members of the Society shall constitute a quorum at any
annual or general meeting.
Six members of the Board of Managers shall constitute a quorum
of that Board and two members of the Executive Committee shall
constitute a quorum of said committee.
Parliamentary rules compiled by L. S. dishing shall be authority
in all meetings.
ARTICLE X.— Amendments.
This constitution may be amended by a vote of two-thirds of the
members present at any annual meeting or by the unanimous vote of
the Board of Managers at any of its meetings after giving thirty
days' notice by mail to each member of such intended amendment.
ARTICLE XL— Seal.
The seal of this Society shall, be the same as that of the National
Society with the exception that it shall bear the legend "Iowa State
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, organized Septem-
ber 5th, 1893," in place of tho legend, "National Society."
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ARTICLE XII.— Insignia.
The insignia shall be the same as that of the National Society,
namely: A silver cross of four arms and eight points, same size as
the Chevaliers' cross of the Legion of Honor of France, arms enam-
eled white, in the center a gold medallion bearing the bust of General
George Washington in profile, surrounded by ribbon in blue enamel,
bearing the legend "Libertas et Patria;" encircling the medallion and
midway between it and the points of the cross, a laurel wreath in
green enamel. R,everse same as the obverse, except that the medal-
lion bears the figure of a Continental soldier, and that the blue enam-
eled ribbon bears the title "Sons of the American Revolution." The
whole is surrounded by an eagle of gold or silver and is suspended
from a biue and white ribbon. A smaller badge, the same as the fore-
going in every respect except that it is only one-half the diameter of
the large one, and a blue and white rosette or button seven-sixteenths
of an inch in diameter.
CHAPTERS
LEXINGTON CHAPTER — KEOKUK.
OFFICERS.
Capt. Iram Allen Sawyer President
Hon. Alvin Jasper McCrary Vice-President
Rev. Ezra Butler Newcomb .... Secretary and Treasurer
WOODBURY CHAPTER -SIOUX CITY.
OFFICERS.
Judge George Washington Wakefield President
John Church Gushing Hoskins, Esq. .... Vice-President
Lancelot Minor Kean, Esq Secretary
OTTUMWA CHAPTER — OTTUMWA.
officers.
Joseph Henry Merrill Presideyit
Frank Benjamin Clark Vice-President
George Francis Trotter Secretary
John Byron Dennis
Frank Simonds . )■ Executive Committee
Leo Eugene Stevens. ......
BEN FRANKLIN CHAPTER -DES MOINES.
OFFICERS.
Elbridge Drew Hadley President
Henry Brown Hawley Vice-President
Edward Hamlin Hazen Secretary and Treasurer
HEDAL LIST
5PANISH=AMERICAN WAR
Sumner Tyler Bisbee, Captain Fiftieth Iowa Infantry.
Edwin H. Brown, First Lieutenant Fifty-second Iowa Infantry.
Harry John Dutton, Private Fifty-first Iowa Infantry.
Edward Ridgeway HuTChins, Captain and Assistant Com-
missary, United States Volunteers.
Cyril Ward King, Captain and Assistant Quartermaster, United
States Volunteers.
John Campbell Loper, Colonel Fifty-first Iowa Infantry.
Charles Mayo Loring, First Sergeant, Fifth Battery, Iowa
Light Artillery.
Alexander Lewis Sortor, Jr., Captain Fifty-second Iowa
Infantry.
Chester Butler Worthington, Captain and Assistant Quar-
termaster, United States Volunteers.
Emory Chapman Worthington, Captain Fifty-first Iowa
Infantry .
THE IOWA SOCIETY.
EMBERS OF THE IOWA SOCIETY of the Sons
of the American Revolution, alphabetically arranged,
showing the lineage of each member in the ascending
line to each Revolutionary ancestor, and also show-
ing, briefly, the services of each ancestor.
Example.
56 JOHN QUINCY ADAMS 4756
Real Estate, Chicago, 111. Born June 16, 1848.
Admitted January 5, 1895.
Benjamin Stearns Adams Susan Pierce.
Ephraim Adams Sallie Boutelle.
Ephraim Adams Elizabeth Stearns.
Explanation : The name of the member is in capitals, and
the name of the Revolutionary ancestor is in italics. Ben-
jamin Stearns Adams and Susan Pierce are the father and
mother of the member. John Quincy Adams. Ephraim
Adams and Sallie Boutelle are the grandfather and grand-
mother of the member. Ephraim Adams and Elizabeth
Stearns are the great-grandfather and great-grandmother of
the member, and Ephraim Adams is the Revolutionary an-
cestor.
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56 . JOHN OUINCY ADAMS 4756
Real Estate, Chicago, 111. Born June 16, 1848.
Admitted January 5, 1895.
Benjamin Stearns Adams Susan Pierce.
Ephraim Adams Sallie Boutelle.
Ephraim Adams Elizabeth Stearns.
EPHRAIM ADAMS 2D served as a private in Capt.
Heald's Company which marched from New Ipswich on April
20, 1775, and went to Cambridge on the Lexington alarm;
served as a private in Capt. Joseph Parker's Company of Col.
Enoch Hale's Regiment in the Northern Army at Ticonderoga
in 1776; served as a private in Capt. Edmund Brant's Com-
pany of Col. Daniel Moore's Regiment at Saratoga in 1777;
served as a private in Capt. Samuel Twitchell's Company of
Col. Enoch Hale's Regiment in Rhode Island in 1778; all of
which service was with New Hampshire troops.
References : Revolutionary Rolls and Archives in the office
of the Secretary of State of New Hampshire.
94 CHARLES EARL ADAMS 4794
Flour Mill, DeLamere, North Dakota. Born May 12, 1844.
Admitted February 6, 1897.
Benjamin Stearns Adams Susan Pierce.
Ephraim Adams Sallie Boutelle.
Ephraim Adams Elizabeth Stearns.
For service of EPHRAIM ADAMS see J. Q. Adams.
No. 56.
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112 FRANK ANDERSON 10462
Live Stock Dealer, Sioux City. Born March 17, 1856.
Admitted January 6, 1898.
Lewis Anderson Catherine WyHe.
Robert Wyhe Ehzabeth Brown.
Oliver Broivn Abigail Richardson.
OLIVER BROWN served as a private in Capt. Thach-
er's Company of Colonel Gardner's Regiment <vhich marched
on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775; served as a Ser-
geant in Captain Chadwick's Company in Colonel Gridley's
Artillery Regiment in August, 1775; served as Captain —
Lieutenant in Colonel John Crane's Artillery Regiment from
January i, 1777, to May 28, 1779, when he resigned, all in the
Massachusetts troops.
In his own v^^ords written in 1845 : "I stood in front of the
first cannon fired by the British on the Americans at Lexing-
ton. June 17th of the same year I was in the engagement at
Bunker Hill, was with our army on York Island, participated
in the Battle of Harlem Heights, where I commanded a com-
pany of thirty men, and two field pieces ; lost fifteen of my
men in killed and wounded ; was in the Battle of White Plains,
also the Battles of Trenton and Princeton ; was stationed at
Bound Brook; next at Meed Fort; was at the Battles of
Brandywine and Monmouth. I served under General Wash-
ington for four years, by whom I was intrusted with many
small adventures. I was a looker-on at the "Boston Tea
Party." I pulled down the King's statue in New York, a
leaden one, which was made into bullets."
References: Archives in the ofifice of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hayden's Biographical
Sketch of Captain Oliver Brown. Heitman's Register, p. 103.
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124 ROLLIN VALENTINE ANKENY 10474
Coroner, Des Moines. Born May 22, 1830.
Admitted December 8,, 1898.
In the War of 1861 served as Private, Sergeant, First Lieu-
tenant and Captain of Company B, Forty-sixth Ilhnois Vol-
unteer Infantry, and as Major and Lieutenant Colonel of same
regiment ; was Colonel of the One Hundred and Forty-second
Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, and was made Brig-
adier General by brevet at close of war.
General Joseph Ankeny Susannah Girsel.
Captain Peter Ankeny — ionwtrly Angeny —
Rosina Bonnet.
PETER ANGENY or ANKENY was a Captain of the
Fifth Company of the Militia of Bedford County, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1 78 1, and was in active service on the frontier.
References : Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series, Vol.
14.
93 FRANZ SIGEL APPELMAN
Postmaster, Emmetsburg. Born October 11, 1862.
Admitted February 4, 1897.
Gustavus Adolphus Appelman
Prudence Ann Williams.
Erastus Williams.. Nancy Hewitt.
William Williams .Mrs. Prudence Stanton Fanning.
WIELIAM WILLIAMS served as a Lieutenant in Capt.
Morgan's Company of the Eighth Connecticut Regiment of
Militia from September 8, 1776, to November 17, 1776, be-
ing called to North River and New York. He was wounded
at the Battle of White Plains, October 28. 1776, in the knee,
and was incapacitated for further service.
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The public records of Connecticut show that he was both
Lieutenant and Captain of the Fourth Company or "train-
band" of Groton, Connecticut.
William Williams was descended from Mayflower stock,
being- fifth in descent from John Alden and Priscilla, the story
of whose romantic wooing will never die.
References: Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War.
Records of War Department, Washington, D. C. Records of
Probate Ofifice, Groton, Connecticut.
4 W. H. H. ASBURY 4704
Real Estate Dealer, Ottumwa. Born April 4, 1841,
Admitted September 5, 1893.
In the War of the Rebellion, enlisted in Company K, Sec-
ond Iowa Infantry in April, 1861, vmder President Lincoln's
first call for 75,000 troops to serve for three months, but was
rejected. Again enlisted August 17, 1861, in Company E,
Third Iowa Cavalry, in which he served as Fourth Sergeant
until October 7, 1862, when he was discharged for disability.
Benjamin Asbury Polly Porter.
Joseph Asbury Hannah Talbott.
Also:
Benjamin Asbury Polly Porter.
Thomas Porter Polly Oder.
Robert Porter Elizabeth Reed.
JOSEPH ASBURY was a cavalry soldier in the Virginia
Continental line, and was paid April 29, 1785, 33 pounds and
15 shillings under an Act of the Assembly of November, 1781,
as the record shows. Tradition in the family relates that he
enlisted in 1776 at the age of 16 years, and served continu-
ously for five years, being in all the battles fought by General
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Washington from Trenton, December 26, 1776, to Yorktown,
October, 1781, having been badly wounded, suffered at Valley-
Forge, and wintered at Morristown.
ROBERT PORTER served seven years as a private and
Sergeant in Capt. John Finley's Company of Col. Broadhead's
Regiment of Pennsylvania troops. He was in numerous en-
gagements with the British soldiers and Indians in the Revo-
lutionary War, and was dangerously wounded, and for sev-
eral years before his death, in 1825, drew a pension.
References: Records of the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Revolutionary Pay
Rolls in the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts, at Rich-
mond, Virginia.
152 JAMES EDWIN AYRES 13052
Merchandise Broker, Sioux City. Born July 22, 1844, at
Andover, Illinois.
Admitted March 22, 1900.
William A. Ayres Almira S. Piatt.
William Ayres Ann Greenly.
Ebenezer Ayres Thankful Lockwood.
Jonathan Ayres Deborah Scofleld.
JONATHAN AYRES served as a Corporal from June 18,
I779> to July 17, 1779, in Captain Ruben Scofield's Company,
Col. John Mead's Regiment, Connecticut state troops.
References: Connecticut men in the War of the Revolu-
tion, p. 554.
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ii6 WILLIAM HENRY BAILY 10466
Lawyer, Des Moines. Born April 5, 1850.
Admitted March 24, 1898.
Presley Gregg Baily Harriet Carlina Clark.
Samuel Clark Sebrah Cole.
Norinaii Clark Elizabeth Gleason.
William Clark Mary Marean.
Also:
Presley Gregg Baily Harriet Carlina Clark.
Samuel Clark Sebrah Cole.
Norman Clark Elizabeth Gleason.
Mica jail Gleason Hannah Drury.
WILLIAM CLARK of Newton, Massachusetts, joined the
Continental forces ; served as a private in Capt. Amariah Ful-
ler's Company of minute men, which marched on the Lexington
alarn.i of April 19, 1775, to headquarters at Cambridge; re-
ported as belonging to the alarm list; also was in the battle
of Bunker Hill.
NORMAN CLARK of Princeton, Massachusetts; served
in the Old French War at the age of 17 ; served as a private in
Capt. Boaz Moore's Company of Col. Ephraim Doolittle's
Regiment, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775, from
Princeton ; took part in the building of Crown Point Fort ; was
severely wounded in the Battle of Harlem Heights ; served as
a private in Capt. James Mirick's Company under Lieut. Col.
Ephraim Sawyer, Jr., of Col. Josiah Whitney's Regiment from
October 2 to October 18, 1777, and marched to reinforce Gen.
Gates at Saratoga, where he was in command of his company
at the surrender of Burgoyne; he also served as First Lieu-
tenant in Capt. Ephriam Hartwell's (Twelfth) Company of
Col. Josiah Whitney's (Second Worcester Company) Regi-
ment, Massachusetts Militia, commissioned June 17, 1779.
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MICAJAH GLEASON of Farmingham, Massachusetts,
was Captain of a company of minute men, which marched to
Concord on the alarm of April 19, 1775 ; was Captain of Third
Company of Lieutenant Col. Thomas Nixon's Fourth Regi-
ment, Maissachusetts Militia; he served as Captain until the
battle ofi White Plains, where he died on the battle field ; part
of his service was in Col. John Nixon's Regiment. His com-
mission is in possession of George Stone of Hubbardston,
Massachusetts.
Authorities : Record of the descendants of Hugh Clark of
Watertown by John Clark of Boston, Massachusetts, pp. 33,
56. Revolutionary War Archives of Massachusetts, Vol. 12,
p. 105, Vol. 21, pp. 119, 122, Vol. 28, p. 52. Massachusetts
Soldiers and Sailors in Revolutionary War, Vol. 3, pp. 563,
585, Vol. 4, p. 986. Barry's History of Farmingham. Pri-
vate papers and records.
158 EUGENE SILAS BAKER 13058
Manufacturer Proprietary Medicines, Keokuk. Born Octo-
ber 29, 1 85 1.
Admitted September 21, 1900.
Silas F. Baker Weltha G. Buell.
Nathaniel Baker j
Thomas Baker
THOMAS BAKER was a private in Capt. Hugh McClen-
nen's (McClellen's) Company of Col. Samuel Williams Regi-
ment, which marched on the Lexington alarm, April 20, 1775
from Colraine and Shelburne, Massachusetts, and served ten
days; served in Capt. Robert Oliver's Company, of Col. Doolit-
tle's Regiment as appears upon pay roll dated Charlestown, June
27, 1775, and was reported on the Lexington Alarm Roll as
above, having enlisted into the army May i, 1775, and by
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muster roll preserved, appears to have served as a private
in the same company and regiment from May i, 1775 to Aug-
ust I, 1775, three months and eight days; was borne on the
company return of said company dated Winter Hill, (near
Boston) October, 6, 1775, and appears from the records to
have been in the service as late as December 23, 1775, in the
same company.
References : Records in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, Massachusetts.
Year Book of Wisconsin Society S. A. R. of 1896, p. 43.
125 GEORGE LYMAN BALDWIN 10475
Accountant, Sioux City. Born December i. i860.
Admitted December 13, 1898.
Horace Fitch Baldwin Harriet Eliza Hine.
William Baldwin Julia Trafford.
Henry Baldwin Jane Shipman.
Also:
Horace Fitch Baldwin Harriet Eliza Hine.
Alvin Hine Julia Cowles.
Job Cowles Mary (Polly) Walker.
Joseph Walker Elizabeth Martin.
HENRY BALDWIN enlisted as a private in Capt. Ed-
ward Shipman's Company (Sixth) in the Regiment (Sev-
enth) of Col. Charles Webb, Connecticut troops, July nth,
and w^as discharged December 18, 1775; which regiment after
serving along Long Island Sound until September 14, joined
General Sullivan's Brigade in the seige of Boston, and was
there stationed at Winter Hill.
He re-enlisted in Capt. Elisha Ely's Company in Col.
William Douglass' Regiment (Sixth) Connecticut line, forma-
tion of 1 777- 1 78 1, and was discharged January i, 1779. This
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regiment wintered 1777- 1778 at West Point, and assisted
in constructing Meig's Redoubt and others ; encamped in sum-
mer of 1778 at White Plains, and wintered 1 778-1 779 at Red-
ding, Connecticut.
He was a Revolutionary pensioner.
JOSEPH WALKER of Stratford, Connecticut, was com-
missioned as Lieutenant January i, 1777, in Col. S. B. Webb's
Additional Regiment of Connecticut troops ; was promoted
to be Captain August 22, 1777; December 15, 1780, was ap-
pointed aid-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Parsons, with rank of Major.
On retirement of Gen. Parsons in April, 1782, he returned to
his regiment, which in the formation of 1 781-1783 became the
Third of the line under Col. S. B. Webb, and retained the same
number after the consolidation with the Fourth in January,
1783. In 1782 Capt. Walker served as Brigade Major of
the First Connecticut Brigade, and was discharged at the dis-
bandment of the army in June, 1783.
He was an original member of the Connecticut Society of
the Cincinnati at its formation in 1783, and afte;i"wards was
Major General of the Connecticut Militia. He died August 12,
1810.
References: Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 142,
246, 312, 332, 362, 374, 82, 208, 632. Baldwin Genealogy,
Cleveland, Ohio, 1881, p. 494.
41 WESLEY JOHNSON BANKS 4741
Retired farmer, Centerville. Born July 28, 1825.
Admitted July 26, 1897.
William Banks Elizabeth Brown.
Linn Banks Eleanor Proctor.
Also:
William Banks Elizabeth Brown.
William Brown Mary Gaines.
42
WILLIAM BANKS enlisted in Amherst County, Vir-
ginia and served six months as a Sergeant in the Virginia
troops, a part of the time under Capt. Pomphn and Col. Rich-
ardson, in Baron Steuben's command.
LINN BANKS and WILLIAM BROWN were in Wash-
ington's army .
References: Records of Pension Bureau, Department of
the Interior, Washington, D. C.
60 FRANK F. BATES 4760
Lawyer, Odebolt. Born July 24, 1873.
Admitted April 3, 1895.
Orrin B. Bates Susannah Lincoln Richards.
Dr. Jacob Richards Elizabeth Gardner Wolcott.
Jacob Richards Lydia Colson.
Nathamel Richards .... Deborah Blanchard.
Also:
Orrin B. Bates Susannah Lincoln Richards.
Dr. Jacob Richards .... Elizabeth Gardner Wolcott.
Jacob Richards Lydia Colson.
Josiah Colson Leah Beals.
Also:
Orrin B. Bates Susannah Lincoln Richards.
Dr. Jacob Richards .... Elizabeth Gardner Wolcott.
Rev. Calvin Wolcott . . . Sarah Gardner.
Samuel Gardner Sarah Upton.
William Upton Sarah Herrick.
NATHANIEL RICHARDS served as a privai^e in Capt.
Nash's Company, of Col. Lovell's Regiment, Massachusetts
troops in Continental Army, March, 1776, and was present
at the taking and fortifying of Dorchester* Heights; per-
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formed duty at Hull, Massachusetts, in August, 1777, in the
same company.
JOSIAH COLSON was a Lieutenant in the company of
Capt. Nash above named, and served on Dorchester Heig-hts.
WILLIAM UPTON marched as a private from Reading,
Massachusetts, on the Lexington alarm, and took part in the
fighting of April 19, 1775, as a private in Capt. John Flint's
Company of Col. David Green's Regiment; April 21, 1775, he
was a member of Capt. Amos Upton's Companv; May 15,
1775, and afterwards he was a member of Capt. Flint's Com-
pany of Col. Baldwin's Regiment, Massachusetts troops.
References: Revolutionary Rolls, Vol. 21, p. 166 and fur-
ther as to Richards; same volume, pp. 131-166 as to Col-
son; Lexington Alarm Rolls, Vol. 12, p. 66 as to Upton.
Revolutionary War Archives in office of Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
59 ALFRED ALLEN BENNETT 4759
College Professor, Ames. Born November 30, 18)50.
Admitted April 3, 1895.
Rhodolphus D. Bennett Mary Woodward.
Thomas Bennett .Anna Shattuck.
Job Shattuck Sarah Hartwell.
JOB SHATTUCK served as a Lieutenant of Capt. Jonah
Sartell's Company, which marched on the Lexington alarm of
April 19, 1775 from Groton to Cambridge, sixteen days;
served as a Lieutenant of Capt. Henry Haskell's Company of
Col. Prescott's Regiment, according to a pay roll made in camp
at Cambridge, January 13, 1776; was Captain in the Massachu-
setts Militia accepted by the Council February 12, 1776 from
Groton and other towns to serve until April i, 1776; was ap-
pointed July I, 1776, Captain in Col. Jonathan Reed's Regi-
44
ment of Massachusetts troops; marched with his company
to Saratoga as appears on a pay roll of January 26, i yyj ; was
commissioned Captain, in Massachusetts Militia, of Sixth
Company of Col. Reed's Regiment, July 16, 1779.
Family history says he was in the battles of Lexington
and Concord, April 19, 1775, and was in the campaign against
Burgoyne in 1777 and remained in the service until the close
of the war.
References : The Shattuck book of Genealogy. Records
in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Mass-
achusetts.
126 CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER BERRY 12101
Attorney at law. Casey. Born June 6. 1838.
Amitted January 10, 1899.
George Berry Isabel Givin.
John Berry Jane Givin.
JOHN BERRY serverl as an enlisted man in Capt. Briggs'
Company in the Virginia line and was in actual service at
Fort Pitt.
References : Records of the Land Office of the State of
Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.
70 SUMNER TYLER BIS3EE 4770
City Clerk, Keokuk. Born October 4, 1866.
Admitted February 12, 1896.
In Spanish-American war, served as Captain of Company
A, Fiftieth Iowa Volunteer Infantry from April 26, to No-
vember 30, 1898.
John M. Bisbee Abbie Sumner Tyler.
Alexander Sumner Tyler . . Frances Catherine Robson.
Parker Tyler Rebecca Johnson.
Abraham Tyler
45
ABRAHAM TYLER served as First Sergeant in Capt.
John Cushing's Company of Col. Samuel Johnson's Regiment
of Massachusetts troops, which marched from Boxford on
the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, to Lexington, and took
part in the pursuit of the British toward Boston and took po-
sition in the lines of the patriot forces at Cambridge, serving
five days.
In 1776 he was one of the twenty-five soldiers from Box-
ford, stationed at Roxbury and Winter Hill near Cambridge.
He was with nine other soldiers from his town, at New York
for two months under General Washington.
References : Massachusetts Archives Lexington Alarm.
Vol. 2, p. 259. History of Boxford, Massachusetts, 1650 to
1880.
100 GEORGE WELTON BISSELL 4800
College Professor. Ames. Born July 14, 1866.
Admitted March 29, 1897.
George Edward Bissell . . Mary Elizabeth Welton.
George W. Welton Mary A. Graham.
Richard F. Welton Anna Porter.
John Welton Dorcas Hickox.
JOHN WELTON was, on the 17th day of November,
1774, appointed on a committee by the town of Waterbury,
Connecticut, to see that the resolutions adopted by the meet-
ing to adhere to and steadily abide by the association entered
into by the Continental Congress shall be carried into execu-
tion; January 12, 1775, on a committee to receive donations
for the relief of Boston; in 1777, on a committee to care for
families of soldiers; in June, 1781, appointed agent to hire
soldiers for the Continental Army; in July, 1781, on a com-
mittee to divide the town into classes for better obtaining
46
soldiers; in 1783, delegate to a convention at Middletown to
obtain redress of grievances relating to half-pay of officers;
member of Legislature for fifteen sessions, beginning in 1784,
and member of convention in Connecticut to ratify Constitu-
tion of the United States in 1778, and voted for it.
References: History of Waterbury, Connecticut.
I HENRY ELDERKIN JEWETT BOARDMAN 4701
Attorney, Marshal Itown. Born Danville, Vermont, 1828.
Died April 14, 1899.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
First President of this Society.
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman. Ann Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman .... Philomela Huntington.
Gen. Jabea Huntington Judith Elderkin.
Col. Jedediah Elderkin Anna Wood.
Also:
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman. Ann Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman . . . .Philomela Huntington.
Capt. Nathaniel Boardman . . Esther Carver.
Uieiit. Samuel Carver Esther .
DR. NATHANIEL BOARDMAN, JR., served in Capt.
Timothy Bush's Company of Col. Peter Olcott's Regiment of
Vermont troops at time of invasion of Royalton. Vermont, in
October, 1780.
JABEZ HUNTINGTON was one of the two Major Gen-
erals of Connecticut troops in 1776, and sole Major General
in 1777. He was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati;
a resident of Windham, Connecticut. His father, Jabez Hunt-
ington, was for several years speaker of the Colonial Assem-
bly of Connecticut, and a member of the Council of Safety.
JEDEDIAH ELDERKIN was Colonel of the Fifth Regi-
ment in the general organization of the army in 1775, serving
47
about two years ; was a lawyer by profession and a resident
of Windham.
NATHANIEL BOARDMAN carried supplies from the
Connecticut River to Battenkill for the use of the Northern
Army in October, 1777, and in August, 1777, with Capt. Tim-
othy Bush and Lieut. Burton, assisted the people of Strafford
in their retreat.
SAMUEL CARVER was a Lieutenant in Capt. Noah
Phelps' Company of Col. Andrew Ward's Regiment of Con-
necticut troops, enlisted for one year from May 14, 1776;
joined General Washington's army near Fort Lee, was in
battles of White Plains, Trenton and Princeton, and with
Washington in winter quarters at Morristown ; resided at
Bolton, Connecticut.
References: Year Book 1890, Connecticut, p. 96. Connec-
ticut Men in Revolutionary War; History of Windham,
Connecticut. Records in office of Adjutant General of Ver-
mont.
12 CHARLES EDWARD BOARDMAN 4712
Lawyer, Marshalltown. Born June 21, 1839.
Admitted September 5, 1893. Died November 19. 1897.
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman. Ann Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman. . . . Philomela Huntington.
Gen. Jahes Huntington Judith Elderkin.
Col. Jedediah Elderkin Anna Wood.
Also:
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman. Ann Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman .... Philomela Huntington.
Capt. Nathaniel Boardman . . Esther Carver.
Lieut. Samuel Carver
For services of Revolutionary ancestors see H. E. J. Board-
man — No. I.
48
13 CHARLES HENRY EARNEST BOARDMAN 4713
Lawyer, Marshalltown. Born August 16, 1870.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Charles Edward Boardman (No. 12)
Emma J. Dean.
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman. Ann Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman . . . . Philomela Huntington.
Gen. Jabcc Huntington Juditii Elderkin.
Col. Jedediah Elderkin Anna Wood.
Also:
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman. Ann Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman .... Philomela Huntington.
Capt. Nathaniel Boardman . . Esther Carver.
Lieut. Samuel Carver
For services of Revolutionary ancestors see H. E. J. Board-
man — No. I.
25 SAMUEL THOMPSON BUELL 4725
Merchant, Mechanicsville. Born May 4, 1838.
Admitted December 26, 1893.
Was a private in W. Y. W. Ripley's Tenth Company, First
Regiment, Vermont Volunteers ; entered United States service
May 8, t86i ; mustered out August 15, 1861 ; was in the battle
of Big Bethel, Virginia, June 10, 1861. Enlisted in the Seventh
Regiment Vermont Volunteer Lifantry. Quartermaster Ser-
geant from December 5, 1861, to March i, 1863. Lieutenant
Company D from March, 1863, to August, 30, 1864, when he
was mustered out for expiration of term of service. Was
on detail at General Asboth's headquarters. District of West
49
Florida, Barrancas, Florida, from March 31 to August 6,
1864, as Acting Assistant Adjutant General.
Samuel Thompson Buell Jane Briggs.
Elias Buell, Jr Catherine Thompson.
Elias Buell Sarah Turner.
ELIAS BUELL was a Captain in the Lexington alarm
list from the town of Coventry, Connecticut; was a Major of
the Third Battalion, Wadworth's Brigade, commissioned June
20, 1776; was Major in Colonel Ely's State Regiment, June,
I yyy ; served with the Connecticut Volunteers ; also as Com-
missariat in Putnam and Westchester Counties, New York, in
the Revolutionary War.
References: Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War.
Appendix to Hollister's History of Connecticut, Vol. 2, p. 628.
153 EUGENE DAMON BURBANK 13053
Educational Publishing, Des Moines. Born September 13,
1868.
Admitted March 28, 1900.
James Charles Burbank Edna Maria Willey.
Furbush Burbank Sally Shaw.
Benjamin Burbank .Dorcas Furbush.
Charles Furbush, Jr Sarah Gary.
Charles Furbush, Sr Margaret Lovejoy.
CHARLES FURBUSH, JR., was a Captain in Col.
Bridge's Regiment, by muster roll dated August i, 1775, en-
gaged April 25, 1775; service three months, fourteen days;
joined in petition to the Council dated October 20. 1775, stating
that he and other officers of the regiment had been in service
since May, but had received no commissions, and asking that
they be recommended to General W^ashington for commis-
sions in the Continental Army, and it was so ordered.
50
Captain Charles Fiirbiish, Jr., and his father, Charles Fur-
bush, Sr., were in the French and Indian War in 1756 and
1757, and the latter died in camp near Lake George.
Captain Charles Furbush, Jr., commanded a company at
Bunker Hill, was wounded, and carried from the battlefield.
He was murdered by a negro slave, named Pomp, February
II' 1795-
References: Miss Bailey's Historical Sketches of Andover;
Genealogy of Burbank. Family, by G. T. Riddon, published at
Saco, Maine, 1880; p. 204, Vol. 6, Massachusetts Soldiers
and Sailors in the War of the Revolution. Frothingham's
Siege of Boston, p. 402.
79 MORRIS WILLIAM BLAIR 4779
Farmer, Kossuth. Born June 20, 1825.
Admitted April 27, 1896.
David Evans Blair Sarah Job.
William Blair Catherine Evans.
Alexander BlcMr Elizabeth Cochran.
Also:
David Evans Blair Sarah Job.
Morris Job Lydia Bond.
Archibald Job Margaret Rees.
Also:
David Evans Blair Sarah Job.
Morris Job Lydia Bond.
Richard Bond Mary Jarman.
ALEXANDER BLAIR is on the Pennsylvania rolls as a
private soldier in the Revolutionary War, from Cumberland
County, Pennsylvania, having entered at Carlisle in 1778.
WILLIAM BLAIR, when under military age, in 1778,
served as his father's substitute two months at Bald Eagle and
51
Peniis Valley, Pennsylvania ; enlisted for five months in May,
1779, in Capt. Henry Dougherty's Company and served under
General Sullivan in his campaign against the British, Tories
and Indians in New York, being permanently disabled at the
battle of Chemung, notwithstanding which, he enlisted in June,
1780, in Captain Gilbert McCoy's Rangers and served on the
frontier until discharged in January, 1781. His grave is at
Kossuth, Iowa, and is the only completely identified grave of
a Revolutionary soldier in the state.
ARCHIBALD JOB, though a "Friend," was so zealous in
the patriot cause in the Revolution that he was declared "out
of fellowship" by the "Monthly Meeting" in January, 1777,
but later became Captain of the "Job Scouting Party" and
active in the cause of liberty, and is said to have given such
valuable information to Washington as led the latter to put
the Brandywine between his army and the British September 9,
1779. He also aided in providing subsistence for Lafayette's
army in its march through Maryland in 1781.
MORRIS JOB was also disowned by Friends' Society for
activity in the patriot cause and for making gun barrels. After
Brandywine they were transferred to "Hollingsworth's
Guard." "Job's Forge" was one of the sources of the supply
of gun barrels and bayonets for the patriots of the Eastern
shore.
In 1782 Morris Job was employed in the Navy Yard at
Baltimore and later helped build the frigate "Constellation."
RICHARD BOND was a member of the Maryland House
of Delegates 1776 to 1795.
References: Sharpless Genealogy, pp. 530-321-204. Records
of Nottingham Monthly Meeting in Vaults of Park Avenue
Meeting House, Baltimore. Record and Pension Office, War
Department, Washington, D. C. W. H. Egle, State Librarian,
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Records of Bureau of Pensions, De-
52
partment of Interior, Washington, D. C. Johnson's History of
Cecil County, pp. 324-344. Col. Ed Wilmers History of the
Job Family, Ms., p. 9. Votes and Proceedings of the House of
Dejegates of Maryland, June session, 1777. Statement from
office of Secretary of State of Maryland, August 7, 1891.
6 THEODERICK FOULKES BRADFORD 4706
Lawyer, Marshalltovvn. Born October 17, 1859.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Theoderick Foulkes Bradford
Mary Lucinda Boardman.
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman
x\nn Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman. Fhilomela. Huntington.
Gen. Jahez Huntington . . Judith Elderkin.
Col. Jedediah Elderkin. . .Anna Wood.
Also :
Rev. Elderkin J. Boardman.. Ann Gookin.
Dr. Nathaniel Boardman Philomela Huntington.
Capt. Nathaniel Boardman
Esther Carver.
Lieut. Samhiel Carver . . . Esther .
For services of Revolutionary ancestors, see H. E. J. Board-
man — No. I.
20 WILLIAM HEPBURN BREMNER 4720
Law^yer, Des Moines. Born October 24, 1869.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
William Bremner Catherine C. Hampton.
James Hampton Ann Fairfax Catlett.
Dr. Hanson Catlett Minerva Lyon.
Matthew Lyon Miss Chittenden.
Thomas Chittenden
53
MATTHEW LYON was Lieutenant Colonel in the Ver-
mont troops in the Revolutionary War.
THOMAS CHITTENDEN was a member of the conven-
tion of January i6, 1777, which declared the independence of
Vermont; a member of the convention which in July, 1777,
framed the first constitution of Vermont, and was president of
the Council of Safety invested with all governmental powers ;
was elected Governor under the constitution of 1778 and
served as such until his death, excepting one year.
References: Appleton's Cyclopedia of Biography.
40 EDWIN H. BROWN 4740
City Editor, Sioux City. Born January 20, 1862.
Admitted March 7, 1894.
In Spanish-American War enlisted April 26, mustered May
25, discharged October 30, 1898. Commissioned Lieutenant
and Battalion Adjutant April 26, 1898, in the Fifty-second
Iowa United States Volunteer Infantry.
Comfort Simmons Brown Huldah S. Hopkins.
William Brown Miss Simmons.
Jonathan Brown Achsa Arnold.
JONATHAN BROWN was a private soldier in Col. Lap-
ham's Regiment of the Rhode Island troops in 1776, and was
in battle of Quebec. Caleb Arnold and Patience, his wife, had
eight sons and three sons-in-law in the Continental Army,
among whom was Jonathan Brown, who married Achsa
Arnold.
References'. Narragansett Register, published April, 1891.
Spirit of 1776.
140 JAMES FINLEY CAMP 12115
Farmer, La Porte City. Born October 23, 1835.
Admitted August 31, 1899.
In the War of 1861, enlisted in August, 1861, as a private
54
in Company A, Fifty-first New York Volunteer Infantry, and
served in the Ninth Corps under Gen. A. E. Burnside.
Asa Camp Margaret Finley.
Roswell Camp Sarah Roe.
Asa Camp Rachel Parker.
Also:
Great Grandson of Robert Finley.
ASA CAMP enlisted in Major Nicholas Fish's Company
of Colonel Philip Cortlandt's Regiment of New York troops,
March 5, 1778, and served until February 8, 1779, as a pri-
vate ; served as a Corporal in Capt. Jonathan Titus' Company in
the Fourteenth New York Regiment, Col. Frederick Wiessen-
fels, from July 10 to December 15, 1780; served as a Sergeant
in Capt. Lathrop Allen's Company of Col. John Harper's
Regiment.
ROBERT FINLEY served as a private in Capt. John N.
Cummings' Company of the Second New Jersey Regiment un-
der, at various times. Col. Israel Shrove, Col. Elias Dayton,
Lieut. Col. F. Barber and John N. Cummings, in the Revolu-
tionary War.
References: Records in Record and Pension Office, War
Department, Washington, D. C.
157 WARD GOODRICH CASE 1305
Grain Dealer, Des Moines. Born November 18, 1865, Bris-
tol, Connecticut.
Admitted May 19, 1900.
Grove Goodrich Case Mary Elizabeth Corbin.
Charles Corbin Lucy Elizabeth Slack.
Royal Corbin Mary Needham.
Joshua Corbin Woods.
JOSHUA CORBIN served as a private in Capt. John
Nichol's Company, in Col. Jonathan Holman's Regiment of
Massachusetts troops from July, 1776, five months, and was
55
in the battle of White Plains. He also served as a private in
Capt. Nathaniel Healy's Company, of Col. Jonathan Holman's
Regiment of Massachusetts troops, his company having been
stationed at Fort Edward, October 17, 1777; term of service,
thirty days.
References: Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolutionary War, Vol. 3, p. 999. Records of the Bureau
of Pensions, Department of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
141 LAFAYETTE WALLACE CASE 8171
Physician, Waterloo. Born April 7, 1845.
Admitted (originally) December 28, 1894; transferred
from Illinois, October 9, 1899.
Ashbel Wesley Case Eleanor Drake Hollister.
Pierpont Hollister Martha Wallace.
Josiah Hollister Asenath Sweetland.
Thomas Hollister 2d \bigail Talcott.
THOMAS HOLLISTER 2D., son of Thomas Hollister
1st and Dorothy Hill, was Ensign of the Sixth Company of
Col. Wolcott's Regiment of Connecticut troops and went into
service at Boston toward the end of January, 1776, and served
about six weeks after the British evacuated the town. He took
the oath of fidelity in Glastonbury, Connecticut, January i,
1778. He enlisted again in Glastonbury, January i, 1780,
and was discharged December 7, 1780.
References: Glastonbury for Two Hundred Years, pub-
lished at Hartford in 1853. Connecticut Men in the Revo-
lutioniary War, pp. 11-166-381. The Hollister Family in
America, pp. 19-27-32-33-41-64-65-96-1 53-1 54-301-302-543-
545-
iy2 WILL H. COLTON
Bank Cashier, Wapello. Born July 13, 1857.
Admitted February 2, 1901.
56
William A. Colton Mary Weir.
Samuel Weir
William Weir Elizabeth Dillie.
David Dillie
DAVID DILLIE (with probably his brothers, Samuel and
Israel) served in Captain John Miller's Company, as a scout
and ranger on the frontiers of Washington county, Pennsyl-
vania, on several tours of duty, during the years 1778 and
1783. "The rangers on the frontier of Western Pennsyl-
vania had severer duty than the soldiers under Washington,"
says Dr. William H. Egle, State Historian.
References : Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Vol. 23,
p. 218.
167 FRED COURTS 13067
Lawyer, Morning Sun. Born February 3, 1858.
Admitted December 28, 1900.
Fred Courts Sarah B. Mitchell.
Rev. Joseph Mitchell Mary Milligan Bassett.
Joseph Bcissett Mary Milligan.
JOSEPH BASSETT served in Capt. John Russell's Com-
pany of the Twelfth Massachusetts Regiment, Col. Gamalin
Bradford, in the Revolutionary War, as appears by returns of
clothing drawn by him July 3, 1777; served also as Matross
in Capt. William Perkin's Company, Third Artillery Regi-
ment, Continental troops (raised in Massachusetts). He en-
listed April 10, 1777, for three years and his name last ap-
pears on a roll of the company dated at Valley Forge, June 12,
1778, without further remark.
References : Records in the office of the Record and Pension
Office, War Department, Washington, D. C.
81 NORMAN RILEY CORNELL 4781
Physician and Surgeon, Knoxville. Born September 11,
1824.
Admitted September 26, 1896.
57
111 the War of 1861, served as Assistant Surgeon Twenty-
third Iowa Volunteer Infantry from August 8, 1863, to Feb-
ruary 13, 1864, and as Surgeon of Fortieth Iowa Volunteer
Infantry from February 14, 1864 to August 2, 1865, when he
was mustered out with his Regiment at Fort Gibson, I. T.
Amos Cornell, ]r Destimony Chamberlain.
John Chamberlain Lucy Knowlton.
Benjamin Knowlton Abigail Wright.
Benjdimin Knoivlton Phebe Wright.
BENJAMIN KNOWLTON was Moderator of the last
town meeting of his town, New Ipswich, New Hampshire,
held under the authority of George III., March 17,
1775, which declared for revolution and independence, and
was at that time elected one of the Committee of Corres-
pondence and Inspection for the safety of the colony. He
served as Lieutenant of Captain Fletcher's Company, New
Ipswich, which marched to Cambridge after the Lexington
alarm, April 20. 1775; June i, he, with his Company, was
stationed at Charlestown Neck to guard Headquarters at Cam-
bridge, and with his Company participated in the battle of
Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, and the siege of Boston, as well
as the operlations against Ticonderoga.
References: The History of New Ipswich, N. H., Rev.
C. H. Stocking, D. D., East Orange, N. J. Historian and
Genealogist of the Knowlton Family.
144 CORWIN WORTH CORNELL.
Physician and Surgeon, Knoxville. Born February 28,
1849.
Admitted December 7, 1899.
Norman Riley Cornell, No. 81
Mary Fletcher Timmonds.
Amos Cornell Destimony Chamberlain.
John Chamberlain . . . . Lucy Knowlton.
Benjamin Knoivlton .... Abigail Wright
Lieut. Bcnj. Knoivlton . Phoebe Wright.
For the service of BENJAMIN KNOWLTON as last
Moderator of Town Meeting under Royal authority, see N.
R. C. No. 8i.
The morning after the "Concord and Lexington Alarm",
April 20, 1775, he marched to Cambridge, Mass., where on
June 1st his company wlas ordered to join the regiment of
Col. Reed and proceed to Charlestown Neck for the purpose
of guarding the headquarters of the army collecting for the
defense of the neighborhood. Lieut. Benjamin Knowlton' s
company fought at Bunker Hill, and subsequently at the
siege of Boston, and they took part in the operations at
Fort Ticonderoga. His company wtas known as Capt.
Fletcher's.
References : History of New Ipswich, N. H. Certificate
of the Secretary of State, New Hampshire. See No. 81.
163 FRANK CHAMPLIN. 13063
Banker, Boone. Born June 25, 1831.
Admitted December 14, 1900.
William Champlin Elizabeth Detrick.
IVilliam Champlin, Sr Content Brown.
Col. Joseph Champlin Mary Noyes.
IVILLIAM CHAMPLIN enlisted in the spring of 1777
as a private in the Company of Capt. Elijah Lewis in the Regi-
ment of Col. Christopher Green in the Rhode Island troops,
for three years, at Stonington, Connecticut, and served out
his term, participating in the battles of Monmouth, Red Bank,
Mud Island and Brandywine ; was at Valley Forge and the
surrender of Cornwallis and was discharged as a Sergeant.
Soon after the close of this service he shipped on the sloop
"Hancock" which captured a brig laden with wine. Then
he served on the "Oliver Cromwell" Capt. Buddington cap-
59
turing a brig of little value. He next served as a Captain
of marines on the privateer "Minerva", Capt. Saltonstall
capturing two valuable prizes, the "Hibernia" and the "Han-
nah." He also served a short time on the sloop "Spitfire."
Col. Joseph CHamplin served in the early part of the
Revolutionary War and died in camp of pneumonia.
References: Records of the Pension Bureau, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
146 JAMES BALLOCH CHASE 12121
Congregational Minister, Hull. Born August 12, 1837,
Woodstock, Vermont.
Admitted January 13, 1900.
James Balloch Chase Martha Maria Kniffen.
Jonathan Chase Hannah Ralston.
Col. Jondthatii Chase Mary Hall.
Judge Samuel Chase Mary Dudley.
Daniel Chase Sarah March.
Moses Chase Ann Follanshee.
Aquila Chase From England 1638.
COL. JONATHAN CHASE was Colonel of a New Hamp-
shire regiment during the Revolutionary War. The duty
of the regiment was to defend the northern frontier against
British and Indians. His regiment was present at the second
(part of) battle of Bennington, under Col. Seth Warner,
Senior Colonel, and he was present at the surrender of Bur-
goyne. Was made a Brigadier General at close of war.
Adjutant General's Report of New Hampshire, 1866, Vol. 2,
pp. 304-306.
Note. — Mary Hall, wife of General Jonathan Chase, was a
grand-daughter of Col. Wm. Prescott, of Bunker Hill, who
was a grandson of Miles Standish. (So says family tradi-
tion. )
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129 FRANK BENJAMIN CLARK 12 104
Pharmacist, Ottumwa. Bom March 6, 1865.
Admitted March 3, 1899.
WilHam Clark Martha Arnold.
Dr. JFranklin Arnold Mary Moore.
Samuel Moore Mary Archer.
SAMUEL MOORE was a soldier in the Revolutionary
War from Virginia, in the Infantry, and was paid £33 i6s 9d,
February i, 1785. The family record states that he was with
Washington at Braddock's defeat, and that he served all
through the Revolutionary War.
References : Acting Librarian Virginia State Library, Rich-
mond, Virginia, and see in same Library an Account Book
marked "Revolutionary Soldiers," Vol. 2, p. 282.
91 WILLIAM PLATT DARWIN 4791
Merchant, Keokuk. Born September 21, 1858.
Admitted January 21, 1897.
Charles Ben Darwin . . . Mary Abigail Piatt.
Alanson Piatt Elizabeth or Betsy Beach.
Samuel Beach Elizabeth or Betsey March.
Landa Beach Abigail Baldwin.
Lieut. Nathan Ba/<iwm .Hannah Mansfield.
Major Moses Mansfield.
Also :
Charles Ben Darwin . . .Mary Abigail Piatt.
Alanson Piatt Elizabeth or Betsey Beach.
Isaac Piatt Amy Eells.
Samuel Eells
LANDA BEACH when nearly fifty years old entered the
61
military service of the Revolutionary Army among the Con-
necticut troops in lieu of his son-in-lav^, thus permitted to re-
main at home and care for his young family ; he took part in
the battle of White Plains and Fishkill Fort; served at the
battle of Trenton under Capt. Peter Perriott of Col. Webb's
Connecticut Regiment; and also served in the Coast Guard
Fervice under Capt. Hale.
LIEUT. NATHAN BALDWIN served in the Revolution-
ary War in the Connecticut troops and had charge of the fort
at the mouth of Milford Harbor; also commanded government
sloops used for cruising in Long Island Sound.
SAMUEL EELLS served in Capt. Bryant's Company of
Lieut. Col. Baldwin's Regiment of Connecticut troops in the
Revolutionary War, a company composed chiefly of Milford
men who Avere ordered to march from Connecticut to the aid
of the Continentals at Peekskill, New York. He enlisted Octo-
ber 5, and was discharged October 15, 1777. In 1782 he
served in the Connecticut line, in Capt. Richard's Company
of the Fifth Regiment under Lieut. Col. Isaac Sherman.
ISAAC PLATT enlisted in Osbornes' Company of Artif-
icers in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War, in
1778 for the war, and died April 24, 1781, serving at one time
in Capt. Patten's Company of Artillery Artificers.
References : Records of Lyman and Wallingford. Records
of Woodbridge and Orange, once parts of Milford, Connecti-
cut, Connecticut Men in the Revolution. Soffell's Records of
the Revolution. National Numbers 13,897 and 16,737,
Daughters of the American Revolution. Records of the Rec-
ord and Pension Office. War Department, Washington, D. C.
62
90 JAMES CHARLES DAVIES 4790
Physician and Surgeon, Emmetsburg. Born November 14,
1854-
Admitted January 19, 1897.
William Davies Phebe Ann Finch.
Darms Finch Martha Bennett.
Rufus Bennett
RUFUS BENNETT enlisted September i, 1776, at Wilkes-
barre, Pennsylvania, in Capt. Ransom's Company of Col.
Grosvnor's First Connecticut Regiment, commanded then by
Col. Grosvnor and later by Col. Butler, and served in the
forces of the United States until he was discharged June 7,
1783. He was in the battle of Wyoming, and other engage-
ments with the Indians and the British at Medstone and Bound
Brook; after the Wyoming Massacre of July 3, 1778, he served
under Capt. Simon Spalding and finally served in Col. Durkee's
Connecticut Regiment. At the Wyoming Massacre he escaped
by grasping the tail of Col. Butler's horse, and Richard Inman
shot one of two Indians who were pursuing him and thus saved
his life.
References : Records of Pension Bureau, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D. C. Records of Wyoming Historical
and Genealogical Society.
133 JOHN BYRON DENNIS 12108
Wholesale Merchant, Ottumwa. Born February 9. 1853.
Admitted April 20, 1899.
Caswell Dennis Cyrena Yadon.
William Proctor Yadon .... Margaret Capps.
Joseph Yaden Mary Pennybaker.
For services of JOSEPH YADEN, see L. E. Stevens, No.
120.
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139 ALMON RALPH DEWEY 121 14
Lawyer and Judge, Washington. Born October i. 1845.
Admitted August 23, 1899.
In the War of 1861 enHsted in Company D, One Hundred
and Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry, August 7, 1862, but being
under 17 years old his father secured his discharge October 6,
1862. Enlisted May 2, 1864, in Company H, One Hundred
and Fiftieth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served about
Washington, D. C, being discharged August 22, 1864. In the
former service was in actual campaign against the enemy in
Kentucky.
Richard Dewey Jane Baldwin.
Moses Dezvey 2d Electa Fowler.
Oliver Dewey Huldah Morley. s^- -
Moses Dewey Hannah Noble.
OLIVER DEWEY' enlisted as a private in Capt. John Car-
penter's Company as guard at Westfield, Massachusetts, and
served from August 30 to December 30, 1779; enlisted in Col.
Moseley's Regiment of Massachusetts troops October 26,
1780; also served from July 20 to October 22, 1780, in Capt.
Irvi Ely's Company of Col. John Brown's Regiment of Mass-
achusetts troops.
MOSES DEWEY 2D marched as Sergeant in Capt. John
Shephard's Company from Westfield, Massachusetts, on the
Lexington alarm of April 19, 1775, and served from the 20th
to the 28th of April, re-enlisted October 21, 1776, in Capt.
David Moseley's Company, in Col. John Moseley's Regiment,
Massachusetts troops, and served until November 17, 1776;
marched to re-enforce the Northern Army in the Hampshire
County Regiment under Lieut. Col. Timothy Robison in
November, 1778; was drafted January 14, 1778, for guard at
Springfield, Massachusetts, and served six months.
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References : History of Admiral George Dewey and Geneal-
ogy of the Dewey Family. Published 1898 by Dewey Pub-
hshing Company, Westfield. Massachusetts.
84 PETER A. DEY 4784
Banker, Iowa City. Born January 2"/, 1825.
Admitted December 24. 1896.
Anthony Dey Hannah Dey.
Petei' Dey Eleanor Board.
Theunis Dey Hester Schuyler.
THEUNIS DEY was Colonel of the Bergen County, New
Jersey Militia during the Revolutionary War, having been ap-
pointed February 28, 1776, and remained such until his death,
June 10, 1787. He was a member "of the General Assembly
from Bergen County, from January i, 1775, to September 2,
1782. Member of Assembly 1775 to 1777; of Council from
1779 to 1782; of Assembly, 1783 to 1784.
PETER DEY served as a private in the same regiment with
his father.
References: Records in the Office of the Adjutant General
of New Jersey.
135 JAMES BRICE DIVER 121 18
Bridge Engineer and Contractor, Keokuk. Born June 2,
1847, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Admitted April 27, 1899.
In the War of 1861, served as a private in Capt. Campbell
H. Peck's Company C of the Forty-fifth Regiment Iowa Vol-
unteer Infantry, from May, 1864. to September. 1864.
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William Beck Diver Lavinia Herriott Brice.
Thomas Brice Nancy Herriott.
James Brice Johnson.
James Brice Mary Johnson.
Also:
William Beck Diver Lavinia Herriott Brice.
Thomas Brice Nancy Herriott.
Ephraim Herriott Mary Kerr.
Andrezif Herriott Hester ( ?) his wife.
JAMES BRICE enrolled as a private in Capt. John Jolly's
Company of Militia in Harford County, Maryland, May lo,
1776. Took oath of allegiance 1778. Removed to Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania; was a Lieutenant in Capt. Zadock
Wright's Company of Militia, from W^ashington County,
Pennsylvania, commanded by Lieut. Col. John Canon, in ac-
tive service on several tours of duty on the frontiers in the
Revolutionary War from 1781 to 1783.
EPHRAIM HERRIOTT served in the Revolutionary War
in Capt. Benjamin Stiles' Company in actual service on the
frontiers of Washington County, Pennsylvania, in 1781, and
also as a private in Capt. Charles Bilderback's Ranging Com-
pany on the frontiers of Washington County in April and
May, 1783.
ANDREW HERRIOTT enrolled as a private December
26, 1774, in company raised by Dr. John Archer, in Harford
County, Maryland, which was the first military company
formed in that county. Signed the "Association of the Free-
men of Maryland" in 1776. Took the oath of allegiance in
1778 to the state of Maryland, just formed. Removed to
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Enlisted again April 5,
1778, in Capt. Thomas Wiley's Company of Artillery Artif-
icers and was in service in April, 1780.
References : Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, Vol. 22,
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p. 667. Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 11, p. 256.
Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, Vol. 13, p. 95. Manu-
script, Historical Society Bel Air, Harford County, Mary-
land. Dr. George W. Archer, Historian, Emmonton, Mary-
land.
99 WARREN SCOTT DUNCAN 4799
Attorney, Chariton, Iowa. Born September 12, 1822.
Amitted March 23, 1897.
Enlisted July 4, 1862. Recruited a company, was chosen
Captain, and was sworn into the United States service as a
private September i, 1862. Commissioned Lieutenant Colonel
Thirty-fourth Iowa, September 16, 1862, and mustered out
August 16, 1865 as Brevet Colonel United States Volunteers.
David Davis Dungan Isabella McFarren.
William McFarren Polly Scott.
John Scott Agness McElroy.
JOHN SCOTT 2D, served as Commissary General of the
Pennsylvania line. He was grandfather of Dr. John W.
Scott, father of Caroline Scott, wife of President Benjamin
Harrison.
WILLIAM McFARREN was drummer in Capt. Neilson's
Company of Col. George Taylor's Battalion of the Northamp-
ton County Militia and was in the battles of Trenton and
Princeton. He was also an Ensign in Col. George Brinigh's
Battalion of Northampton County Militia in service at Bill-
ingsport, November 5, 1777. George Taylor was a signer of the
Declaration of Independence.
References: American Monthly Magazine, Vol. i. No. 5,
November, 1892, p. 512, as to John Scott as Commissary Gen-
eral. Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 14, 2d series, p. 569. His-
torical Records of Pennsylvania, certified by Dr. William H.
Egle, Historian, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania
Archives, 3d series. Vol. 23, p. 818.
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121 FREDERICK ALVIN DURHAM 10471
Journalist, Des Moines. Born August 3, 1865.
Admitted September 13, 1898.
Daniel Durham Lamira Ann Ensign.
Frederick Ensign Huldah Hotchkiss.
Truman Hotchkiss Ruth Frost.
TRUMAN HOTCHKISS served as a private in Capt.
Asahe^ Hodge's Company of Lieut. Col. Isaac Sherman's Reg-
iment of Foot from January 8, 1781, to October, 1782, in the
Revolutionary War; served as a private in Capt. Edward
Butler's Company, of Col. Zebulon Butler's Regiment, First
Connecticut, from November 1782, to April, 1783; served as
a private in the Fourth Company of Col. Heman Swift's
Regiment of Connecticut troops from May to September, 1783.
References: Records of Record and Pension Office, War
Department, Washington, D. C. Records of office of Adjutant
General of Connecticut.
82 ORISON JAMES CHARLES DUTTON 4782
Seattle, Washington. Born May 4, 1868.
Admitted December 18, 1896. Transferred to Washington
Society.
Smith James Dutton Mary E. Fox.
James Dutton , Sarah Bailey.
James Dutton Martha Kembler.
Also:
Smith James Dutton IMary E. Fox.
James Dutton Sarah Bailey.
Gideon Bailey Ruth Chapman.
JAMES DUTTON served one year from September 7. 1777
in Capt. Seth Oak's Company of Artificers, Continental troops,
in. Continental Army. Family tradition relates that he served
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in the battle of Brandywine, which was fought on the farm
of Widow Hannah Button, who, with her two boys served
the Americans with rations.
GIDEON BAILEY served as First Mate on the American
Frigate "Boston" in 1778.
References: Records in the Record and Pension Office,
War Department, Washington, D. C. Revolutionary Rolls,
office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts.
114 HARRY JOHN DUTTON 10464
Seattle, Washington. Born May 2, 1876.
Admitted January 17, 1898. Transferred to Washington
Society.
Smith James Button Mary E. Fox.
James Button Sarah Bailey.
James Dutton Martha Kembler.
Also:
Smith James Button Mary E. Fox.
James Button Sarah Bailey.
Gideon Bailey Ruth Chapman.
For services of JAMES DUTTON and GIDEON
BAILEY, see O. J. C. Button, No. 82.
46 BENJAMIN E. EBERHART 4746
LaPorte City. Born June 10. 1844.
Admitted July 23, 1894.
Albert E. Eberhart Eliza Evans.
Adolphus Eberhart Sophia Speelman.
ADOLPHUS EBERHART enlisted in the patriot army
from Maryland and served under General Lafayette in the
Revolutionary War, being wounded at the battle of Brandy-
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wine. Was invited to meet General Lafayette as a Revolu-
tionary soldier in the house of Albert Gallatin in 1825, and
was present on that occasion.
References: History of the Eberharts in Germany and
America, on p. 17, being the Biography of Adolphus Eberhart,
written by Uriah Eberhart, and published by Donohoe & Hen-
neberry.
97 ALBERT ELLIS 4797
Prison Officer, Fort Madison. Born September 9, 1835.
Admitted March 12, 1897.
In the War of 1861 served as a private of Company C, Fifth
Iowa Volunteer Infantry; as Second Lieutenant, First Lieu-
tenant, and Captain of Company C, and Captain of Com-
pany G, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, being honorably discharged for
disability November 9, 1864; was in all the marches and battles
of his command during his term of service.
Job Ellis Hannah Job.
Thomas Job Charity Rees.
Archibald Job Margaret Rees.
For services of ARCHIBALD JOB, see M. W. Blair, No.
79-
THOMAS JOB was disowned by the same Friend's meet-
ing as his father for "associating and mustering," and "join-
ign with the commotion of the times so far as to muster and
engage in warlike measures," and was engaged in making
gun barrels, and as a scout, and after Brandywine was trans-
ferred to Hollingsworth's Guard at Elkton, Maryland.
References: Sharpless Genealogy, Octavo Ed. p. 321. Rec-
ords Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 27 day, 7 months, 1776
to 25 day, I month, 1777. Col. Edward Wilner's History
of the Job Family. Compare Johnson's History, Cecil County,
pp. 324 to 344.
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132 AMOS HART EVANS 12107
Coal Dealer, Keokuk. Born August 28, 1840.
Admitted April 20, 1899.
In the War of 1861, enlisted in April, 1861, in the Third
New Jersey Militia for three months; in September, 1861,
enlisted in the Ninth New Jersey Infantry Volunteers, and
was successively Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieuten-
ant and Captain in that Regiment. Has been Department Com-
mander, Department of Iowa G. A. R.
Lewis Evans Elizabeth Hart.
Amos Hart Hannah Titus.
Timothy Titus Patience Hoff.
TIMOTHY TITUS was an Ensign in Capt. Henry Phil-
lips' Company, of the First Regiment of Militia of Hunterdon
County, New Jersey; Second Lieutenant of the same Com-
pany, May 10, 1777, and, later, Captain of the company in
the Revolutionary War.
References: Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of New Jersey.
16 SAMUEL BERRY EVANS 4716
Journalist, Ottumwa. Born July 31, 1831.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
A soldier in the Union army from August, 1862, to June 30,
1865.
Samuel A. Evans, his father, was a soldier in the Seminole
War, and Samuel Evans, his grandfather, was a soldier in the
War of 181 2.
Samuel Berry Evans was Commissary Sergeant of the
Thirty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, and First Lieutenant
in the Fourth Arkansas Cavalry (white). He was in the
battles of Helena. Fort Pemberton, Terre Noir, Parson
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Springs, Camden, Jenkins Ferry; in Yazoo Pass Expedition
and capture of Little Rock.
Samuel A. Evans Sarah Mitchell.
Samuel Evans Elizabeth McCullah.
Andrew Evans Miss Caswell.
ANDREW EVANS served in Virginia troops against the
British as a private soldier from Washington County, enlist-
ing as follows, and serving for the following periods, viz. :
In 1779, in Capt. Danean's Company, one month, twelve
days. In 1780, June, in Col. Campbell's Regiment, Capt. Col-
ville, twenty-eight days. In 1780, August, in the same regiment
and company, twenty-one days. In 1780, September, in same
regiment and company, one month, twelve days. In 1781, in
same regiment and company, one month, twelve days. In 1781,
August, under Capt. Kinkaid, seven days. In 1781, fall, under
Lieut. Campbell, fourteen days. In 1781, December, under
Lieut. Campbell, three months.
Andrew Evans participated in the battle of King's Mount-
ain, North Carolina, October 7, 1780, under Col. Campbell.
References: Records of Pension Bureau, Department of
the Interior, Washington, D. C.
166 CARLTON MARTIN GARVER 13066
Des Moines, in Subsistence Department, U. S. A. Born
January i, 1862.
Admitted December 26, 1900.
George Garver Barbara Fusselman.
Henry Fusselman Almeda M. Gay.
Ralph Gay Roxa Merrill.
Aaron Merrill Annis Humphrey.
AARON MERRILL enlisted in December, 1775, under
Capt. Ebenezer Huntington and Col. Wyllis of the Connecticut
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troops; enlisted as a private March 31, 1778 in the Company
of Capt. John P. WylHs, in the Regiment of Col. Samuel B.
Webb, of Connecticut troops, for three years and served until
he was mustered out March i, 1781. In March, 1818, at
the age of 63 years, he applied for a pension, which was al-
lowed. He was in the siege of Boston and battle of Long-
Island, and other engagements.
References : Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolu-
tion, pp. 250. 635, 643.
149 GEORGE TULLIS GEBHARDT 12124
Traveling Salesman. Waterloo, Iowa. Born October 11,
1870.
Admitted February 2, 1900.
Medill Cook Gebhardt Florence Mary Rowley.
Loveland Thomas Rowley . . Rebecca Ann Tullis.
Joseph Rowley Ann Beach.
Samuel Beach Sarah Powell.
Also:
Medill Cook Gebhardt Florence Mary Rowley.
Loveland Thomas Rowley. . Rebecca Ann Tullis.
Joseph Rowley Ann Beach.
Joseph L. Rowley • Loveland.
SAMUEL BEACH served in Capt. Robert Cochran's Com-
pany of Maj. Bown's detachment in the service of the Union
colonies of the campaign against Quebec, having enlisted No-
vember 26, 1775, until February 16, 1776, and perhaps longer,
as appears on a muster roll dated the latter date at "Camp near
Quebec," in the office of the Comptroller of New York.
JOSEPH L. ROWLEY was a private in Capt. Ke!^ogg's
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Company, of Col. Whitney's Regiment in the Revokitionary
War, from New York, as appears in "Archives of the State
of New York," Vol. i, p. 460.
References : Certificate from the office of the Comptroller
of State of New York.
86 THOMAS PARKE GERE 4786
Civil Engineer, Sioux City. Born September 10. 1842.
Admitted December 30, 1896.
In the War of 1861, mustered January 17, 1862, at Fort
Snelling, Minnesota, as a private. Fifth Regiment, Minnesota
Infantry. Appointed First Sergeant Company B, March 6,
1862, Second Lieutenant March 24, First Lieutenant August
20, Regimental Adjutant March 19, 1863, Acting Assistant
Adjutant General Second Brigade, First Division, Sixteenth
Army Corps March 7, 1864; honorably discharged April 5,
1865, at Spanish Fort, Alabama.
Engaged at Fort Ridgely, Minnesota, August 18 to Aug-
ust 27, 1862, with Sioux Indians; Jackson, Mississippi, May
14, 1863; assault Vicksburg, May 22, 1863; siege of Vicks-
burg, Mechanicsburg, Mississippi, May 31, and June 4; Rich-
mond, Louisiana, June 15; opiX)site Vicksburg, June 25; Fort
DeRussy, Louisiana, March 14. 1864; Henderson Hill, March
21; Camti, April 4; Pleasant Hill, April 9; Cloutierville,
April 23-24; Bayou Rapides, April 26, May 2-4-7; Marks-
ville. May 16; Bayou de Glace, May 18; Abbeville, Miss-
issippi, xA.ugust 23; Nashville, Tennessee, December 15, 16;
Spanish Fort, Alabama, April 3-4, 1865. Slightly wounded at
Nashville, Tennessee, December 15, 1864. Captured battle
flag of Fourth Mississippi Regiment at Nashville, December
16. Presented United States Medal of Honor by Secretary
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of War E. M. Stanton, at Washington, D. C, February 22,
1865.
George Morgan Gere Sarah ChampHn Parke.
Jeremiah Gere Martha Morgan.
Resin Gere Mary Vanderburg.
Also:
George Morgan Gere Sarah ChampHn Parke.
Thomas Parke Eunice ChampHn.
Benjamin Parke Hannah Stanton Yorke.
REZIN GERE was a Captain in the Twenty-fourth Regi-
ment of MiHtia of Westmoreland County, Connecticut, and
was kiHed in the battle at Wyoming, Pennsylvania, on July
3, 1778, while in command of his company previous to the
massacre on that day.
BENJAMIN PARKE was one of the committee that
drafted resolutions in 1774 protesting against the infringe-
ment of the rights of the Colonies, the tax on tea, etc. He
marched to the relief of Boston on the Lexington alarm of
April, 1775. He marched as Captain of a company of min-
ute men to the relief of the American army near Boston in
June, 1775. He participated in the battle of Bunker Hill,
June 17, 1775, in which battle he was mortally wounded.
References: Connecticut Men in the Revolution, pp. 22-624.
Jenkin's Historical Address, 1878, Battle and Massacre of
Wyoming (published Wilkesbarre) pp. 35-43. Wyoming
Monument at Wyoming, Pennsylvania. Genealogy of the Gere
Family (published Hartford, Connecticut, 1856), pp. 75-76-
77-78. Blackman's History of Suscjuehanna County, Pennsyl-
vania,. Denison's Westerly, pp. 110-74. Narragansett His-
torical Register, Vol. i, p. 217. Drake's Dictionary of Amer-
ican Biography, p. 687.
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22 CHARLES CHADBOURNE OILMAN 4722
General Contractor, Marshalltown. Born July 28, 1848.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Eliphalet Oilman Rebecca Swift Ellis.
Oideon Oilman Lois White.
Benjamn White Silence Baker.
BENJAMIN WHITE marched April 19, 1775, at Lexing-
ton alarm as a private in Capt. Thomas White's Company of
Col. William Heath's Regiment of Massachusetts troops and
served until the 12th day of May, against the Ministerial
troops; served three months and two days from April 2, 177S,
as a guard at Cambridge, Massachusetts, under Col. Jonathan
Reed ; also served three months and seven days in Capt Tlieop-
ilus Wilder's Company of Col. Eben Thayer's Regiment in
the Rhode Island campaign from July 22 to October 29, 1780,
as a Corporal.
References: Records in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
36 WILLIAM GRANT GOODWIN 473^
Farmer, La Porte City. Born August 4, 1832.
Admitted March 7, 1894. Died October 23, 1898.
Enlisted May 21, 1864, in Company C, Forty-seventh Iowa
Volunteer Infantry, and was mustered out as a Corporal
September 28, 1864.
Nathaniel Allen Goodwin. . . . Lavinia Hazen Low.
Seth Goodzvin Deborah Allen.
Charles Goodzvin Thankful Russell.
CHARLES GOODWIN served in the French and Indian
War of 1 75 5- 1 763; served in the Revolutionary War as En-
sign in Capt. Epaphros Loomis' Company of Col. Fisher Gay's
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Battalion of Connecticut troops raised in Jnne, 1776, to rein-
force General Washington at New York, August 29 and 30,
and at White Plains, September 15. in March, 1777, his regi-
ment was ordered to Peekskill, and in this expedition he was a
private in Capt. Abel Pettibone's Company, and in June was
First Lieutenant in Capt. Amos Wills' Company in the Regi-
ment of Col. Roger Evans, stationed on the Hudson. He was
also a First Lieutenant in Capt. Matthew Smith's Company in
Brigadier General David Waterbury's brigade, and in July,
1781, the brigade joined Washington's forces at Phillipsburg.
SETH GOODWIN enlisted June 17, 1781, as a private in
Capt. Matthew Smith's Company in Gen. David Waterbury's
brigade raised for the defense of Horseneck, and in July
joined General Washington's forces at Philadelphia. He drew
a pension, and was in the War of 181 2, as was Nathaniel Allen
Goodwin above named.
William Grant Goodwin was a Union soldier in the War of
1 86 1, making four generations of soldiers.
References: The Goodwin Book, published at Hartford,
Connecticut.
161 JOHN HAILE, JR. 13061
Painter, Council Bluffs. Born November 14. 1849.
Admitted October 29, 1900.
John Haile Clara S. Brayton.
William Brayton Mary Tallman.
Edward Tallman Ruth Thurber.
Benjamin Tallnian Rhoda Church.
Also:
John Haile Clara S. Brayton.
William Brayton Mary Tallman.
James JVIieafon Brayton Roby Esterbrook.
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BENJAMIN TALLMAN was appointed by the General As-
sembly of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence planta-
tions, to the following positions in the military service, viz. :
October 31, 1775, Major of a regiment ordered at the same ses-
sion to be raised "for the defense of the United States in gen-
eral, and said colony in particular;" in August, 1776, Major
of the first regiment of the State Brigade; November 21, 1776,
Lieutenant Colonel of a regiment ordered to be raised to serve
three months; December 10, 1776, Lieutenant Colonel of one
of two regiments ordered to be raised to serve fifteen months ;
December 23, 1776, Colonel of the first regiment ordered to be
raised at the preceding session of the General Assembly vice
Col. John Cooke, resigned. In 1776 he superintended the con-
struction of two frigates built under a resolution of Congress
of the preceding December, which frigates were launched at
Providence, Rhode Island, the "Warren" of thirty-two guns,
and the "Providence" of twenty-eight guns. Later he built a
large war vessel for the colonists called the "Confederate."
JAMES WHEATON BRAYTON enlisted for service in
the patriot cause in September, 1775, as a private in Capt.
Martindale's Company, of Col. Church's Regiment of Rhode
Island troops and served eight months; also December, 1776,
in Capt. Caleb Carr's Company, of Col. Archibald Cavary's
Regiment of Rhode Island troops, and served fifteen months ;
he also served twelve months as carpenter's mate on the gul-
ley "Spitfire," and five months on the privateer "General
Stark," and is said to have been in an engagement with British
vessels "Phoenix" and "Rose" in the North River.
References: Colonial Records of Rhode Island, Vol. 7,
pp. 403-599; Vol. 8. pp. 45, 64, 74. Arnold's History of
Rhode Island, Vol. 2, pp. 359, 377- 38I' 288, 391. Records
of the Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior, Wash-
inofton. D. C.
78
I03 ELBRIDGE DREW HADLEY 10453
Lawyer, Des Moines. Born September 16, 1842.
Admitted July 13, 1897.
Was Sergeant, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant in Four-
teenth New York Volunteer Infantry and Brevet Captain of
Volunteers in the War of 1861.
Enoch Hadley Mary Ann Bailey.
Enoch Hadley Abigail George.
George Hadley Lydia Wells.
Also :
Enoch Hadley Mary Ann Bailey.
Enoch Hadley Abigail George.
Joseph George
In August, 1775, GEORGE HADLEY was Captain of a
company in Col. Daniel Moore's Regiment of Militia in New
Hampshire. In 1776 he and another hired a man for five months
to serve in the Revolutionary Army; in 1776 he was one of a
company of thirty men who went from the town of Weare,
New Hampshire, to Ticonderoga and "did half a term
for that term," being in the service for about two
months and twelve days; in 1777 he was one of five
men who went from Weare, New Hampshire, under Col.
Stark for three weeks under Lieut. Ithamar Eaton; from
the 30th day of September to the 25th day of October,
1777, he served in Capt. Clark's Company of Col. Daniel
Moore's Regiment and joined the Northern Army at Sara-
toga. He was the representative of the town of Weare in the
Legislature of New Hampshire in 1777 at a session of which
in June, John Stark was appointed Brigadier General and
steps were taken in the raising of troops which led to the de-
feat of the British at Bennington.
JOSEPH GEORGE was one of the men who enlisted from
the town of Weare, New Hampshire, in 1776, "raised and
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equipped by the State of New Hampshire to reinforce the
army in Canada," and served two months and twelve days,
but who served at or near Ticonderoga after the British took
Crown Point ; his name appears on the pay roll of Capt. James
Aiken's Company of Col. Moses Kelly's Regiment of Volun-
teers, who marched from the State of New Hampshire and
joined the Continental Army in Rhode Island in August, 1778.
He served in the French and Indian War in 1755 and 1756.
References : Little's History of the Town of Weare, New
Hampshire, 1888. Records in the office of the Secretary of
State, Concord, New Hampshire.
122 EUGENE D. HAMLIN 10472
Grain Dealer, Des Moines. Born August 11, 1847.
Admitted October 31, 1898.
George William Hamlin . . . Jeannette Chamberlain.
Richard Hamlin Asenath Fowler.
Nathaniel Hamlin Deborah St. John.
NATHANIEL HAMLIN was Ensign, in 1771, of the
third company or train-band of Sharon, Connecticut, and was
reappointed in May, 1 772 ; in June, 1 776, was appointed First
Lieutenant of the Third Company of Col. Fisher Gay's Second
Battalion of Connecticut troops, which was raised to reinforce
Washington at New York, and served in Brig. Gen. Wads-
worth's Connecticut Brigade, at Brooklyn, in the battle of
Long Island, August 27; on September 15 was in the battle
of White Plains. Time of service expired December 25, 1776.
Family tradition says he served as Captain at some period in
the Revolutionary War. His brothers Thomas and Asa and
his cousin Cornelius Hamlin also served in the same war.
References: The Connecticut Colonial Records. History
of Litchfield County. Connecticut. Connecticut Men in Revo-
lutionary War.
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117 HENRY BROWN HAWLEY 10467
President, Insurance Co., Des Moines. Born July 30, 1856.
Admitted April 9, 1898.
David Waldo Hawley Julia Samantha Brown.
David Hawley Anna Waldo.
John Elderkin Waldo Beulah Foster.
Zachariah Waldo Elizabeth Wight.
Also:
David Waldo Hawley Julia Samantha Brown.
David Hawley Anna Waldo.
John Elderkin Waldo Beulah Foster.
W\illiain Foster
Also:
David Waldo Hawley Julia Samantha Brown.
David Hawley Anna Waldo.
Sylvanius Hawley Huldah Lake.
Joseph Lake, Jr
ZACHARIAH WALDO was a private in Capt. John
Douglas's Company of Connecticut troops, having enlisted on
the 18th day of July and served until the i6th day of De-
cember, 1775, in the Second Company of the Eighth Regi-
ment.
WILLIAM FOSTER was a captain of a company of min-
ute men who marched from Canterbury, Connecticut, on the
Lexington alarm in April, 1775.
JOSEPH LAKE, JR., of Sharon, Connecticut, was a soldier
in the old French War and also in the War of the Revolution.
Compatriot Henry Brown Hawley is also great sixth grand-
son of Samuel Adams, of Charlestown, Captain of the town
company, and later, in 1679, town clerk of Chelmsford; he
was the son of Henry Adams, of Braintree, ancestor of two
presidents, also great sixth grand-son of William Fowler,
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Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain of the town company at
New Haven ; he raised troops to defend the colony against the
threatened invasion of the Dutch ; also great seventh grandson
of John Drake of the original company organized by King-
James I. in 1606, to colonize New England; also great seventh
grandson of Thomas Graves Esq., of Charlestowai ; in 1629
he was mate of the Talbot, in which came Higginson to
Salem, and in the same station on board the Admiral's ship of
Winthrop's fleet, he was master for several years, and in 1642
had the first vessel ever built at Boston for foreign trade ; for
good service in the English Channel he was awarded by Parlia-
ment with the title of Rear Admiral.
References: Connecticut Revolutionary Rolls, p. 86. Con-
necticut Men in the Revolution.
2 EDWARD HAMLIN HAZEN 4702
Physician and Surgeon, Des Moines. Born April 12, 1834.
Admitted September .5, 1893.
In the War of 1861, served one year as a private in Com-
pany K, Second Michigan Infantry; three years as hospital
steward. United States Army.
Edward Hazen Minerva C. Hamlin.
Benjamin Hasen Elizabeth Gates.
BENJAMIN HAZEN served as a Corporal in Capt.
Towne's Company, in Col. David Gilman's Regiment, New
Hampshire troops, raised to reinforce the Continental Army in
New York, from December 7, 1776, to March i, 1777; also as
a fifer in Capt. Howlett's Company of Col. Ashley's Regiment
of New Hampshire Militia, which marched from Keene, New
Hampshire, to Ticonderoga, June 27 to July 11, 1777; also as
a fifer in Capt. Wright's Company of Col. Nichol's Regiment
of New Hampshire Militia, which marched under Gen. Stark,
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from Winchester, New Hampshire, and joined the Northern
Army at Bennington and Stillwater, from July 23 to Septem-
ber 24, 1777.
References: Records of the office of the Adjutant and In-
spector General of Vermont.
37 WILLIAM PETERS HEPBURN 4737
Attorney, Clarinda. Born November 4, 1833.
Admitted March 7, 1894.
In the War of 1861 was Lieutenant Colonel of Second Iowa
Cavalry.
James S. Hepburn Ann Fairfax Catlett.
Hanson Catlett Minerva Lyon.
Matthew Lyon Miss Chittenden.
Thomas Chittenden
MATTHEW LYON was a Lieutenant Colonel in the mili-
tary service of the colonies during the War of the Revolution,
from Vermont.
THOMAS CHITTENDEN was first governor of Ver-
mont during the War of the Revolution. See No. 20, Wil-
liam Hepburn Bremner.
References: The American Encyclopedia.
52 LEVI HILLS 4752
Merchandise Broker, Ottumwa. Born July 22, 1838.
Admitted December 4, 1894. Died July 15, 1899.
Levi Hills Sarah Sears.
Miles Hills Anne Butrick.
Medad Hills
83
MEDAD HILLS, of Goshen, Connecticut, raised a com-
pany for service in the American Army in Goshen, Torring-
ton, and Winchester, Connecticut, and was appointed Captain
in December, 1776.
He is said to have been in command of two companies at
the taking of New York, several companies having been con-
soHdated into a regiment, of which Noadiah Hooker was
Colonel. Capt. Hill was made Major. He was promoted to
be Lieutenant Colonel and Colonel. "He was celebrated for
the muskets he made during the Revolutionary War more
than for the battles he fought, for the reason that his guns
have been seen more than his battles have been heard of, al-
though he was a brave and honorable soldier."
References: Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of Connecticut. Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War.
History of Torrington and Winchester, Connecticut.
(>7 ABRAHAM VAN DE RIPE HOAGLAND 4767
Assessor, Keokuk. Born September 6, 1825.
Admitted December 18, 1895.
George Hoagland Lucretia Van de Ripe.
John Hoagland Sarah Bergen.
JOHN HOAGLAND, born in 1759, enlisted in the Con-
tinental Army in the Militia of Somerset County, New Jersey,
at the age of 16 years, and went through the War of the Revo-
lution, taking part in the battles of Trenton, Princeton and
Monmouth.
References: Genealogy of the Hoagland Family in Amer-
ica. Jersey Men in the Revolution, by Adjutant General
W. S. Stryker, of New Jersey.
84
85 JOHN CHURCH CUSHING HOSKINS 4785
Civil Engineer, Retired, Sioux City. Born January 18.
1820.
Admitted December 30, 1896.
Samuel Hoskins Harriet Byron Cushing.
Eli Hoskins Rhoda Drake.
Daniel Drake Lois Reed.
John Reed Dorothy Pinneo.
Also:
Samuel Hoskins Harriet Byron Cushing.
Eli Hoskins Rhoda Drake.
Williani Hoskins
Also:
Samuel Hoskins Harriet Byron Cushing.
Caleb Cushing ( 2 ) Mary Church.
Caleb Cushing ( i )
Also:
Samuel Hoskins Harriet Byron Cushing.
Caleb Cushing (2) Mary Church.
John Church Hannah xVmbrose.
Robert Ambrose
DANIEL DRAKE served in the Massachusetts troops in
the Revolutionary War as follows: Enlisted as a private in
Capt. Robert Crossman's Company of minute men, who
marched from Taunton to Roxbury under command of Na-
thaniel Leonard, April 20, 1775; was Sergeant in Francis Lis-
comb's Company of Timothy Walker's Regiment in siege of
Boston, October 6, 1 775 ; was a private in Capt. Robert Cross-
man's Company of Col. Geo. Williams' Militia Regiment that
marched from Taunton to Warren, Rhode Island, on alarm
of December 8, 1776; was a private in Capt. Ichabod Leon-
ards' Company in Col. Thomas Carpenter's Regiment in July,
85
1778; was in Nehemiah Pratt's Company of Col. Mitchell's
Regiment, at the Rhode Island alarm, August 2, 1780; was
Captain of a company in Col. Luke Drury's Regiment from
Bristol County, Massachusetts, which marched to North
River by order of the General Court, August 23, 1781.
JOHN RhED was a Captain in the Third Bristol County
Regiment in 1774, and was a member of Committee of Corre-
spondence, Inspection and Safety in the years 1775- 1777 and
1778.
ELI HOSKINS enlisted in Capt. Matthew Randall's Com-
pany of Col. Thomas Marshall's Regiment from Taunton,
Massachusetts, June 2y, 1776; was a private in Capt. Edward
Blake's Company of Col. Carpenter's Regiment, July 28, 1780;
enlisted in Capt. Leonard's Company of Col. Mitchell's Regi-
ment, August I, 1780; aided in fortifying Dorchester Heights;
was at battle of Rhode Island under General Sullivan, August
29» ^77^1 also served in a Rhode Island regiment; discharged
at New York after the close of the war. He was a signer of the
'"Solemn League and Covenant" of May, 1776, signed by the
Taunton patriots.
WILLIAM HOSKINS, father of Eli, was also a signer of
the "League and Covenant," as were his sons, Nathan, Wil-
liam, Timothy and Eli, and he gave five sons to the Patriot
Army, one of whom, Samuel, was killed in Rhode Island,
August 29, 1778.
CALEB GUSHING (2), a boy of 16, enlisted as a fifer,
and his company was at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, await-
ing orders when news of peace came and he was discharged.
GALEB GUSHING (i) was a Sergeant in Capt. Johnson's
Company of Col. Titcomb's Regiment, discharged June 27,
1778- (History of Haverhill and Massachusetts Records.)
He was also nt the battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill and
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was a Brigade Quartermaster at West Point in the time of
Arnold's treason. (History of Salisbury, N. H.) June lO,
1778, he loaned the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, £10
10s, and June i6th same year £150. (History of Haverhill.)
JOHN CHURCH, of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, was a
signer of the "Association Test" in 1776, and was a member of
the "Committee of Safety and Inspection." (History of Dun-
barton. )
ROBERT AMBROSE, of Concord, was a signer of the
"Association Test," and a member of the Committee of Safety
and Inspection. (Bouton's History of Concord.)
References: Records in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. History of Reed Family,
by J. W. Reed, Boston, 1861. Records of the town of Taun-
ton, Massachusetts. Records of Pension Bureau. Department
of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
170 LOUIS BAUMANN HOYER 13070
Jeweler, Woodbine. Born November 6, 1865.
Admitted January 14, 1901.
Aaron D. Hoyer Emilie F. Baumann.
John Hoyer Mary Griess.
Leonard Griess Catharine Kissinger.
Ernest Griess Mary Weiningen.
ERNEST GRIESS was a soldier in the Royal American
Regiment in the French and Indian War ; was Ensign of Capt.
John Diehl's Company of Major Heister's Battalion of Berks
County, Pennsylvania, Militia. January, 1777; was Ensign
of Capt. Jacob Moser's Company of the Sixth Pennsylvania
Regiment under commission issued February 15, 1777;
became Supernumerary in 1778; saw service in the Jerseys in
87
1780; was taken prisoner at Short Hills and made his escape;
served in Capt. Chas. Krause's Company of Militia from Au-
gust 16 to October 16, 1781, guarding prisoners of war near
his home at Reading, Pennsylvania.
References : Pennsylvania Archives, second series, edition of
1892. Vol. 14, pp. 254, 256, 305,; edition of 1890, Vol.
10. PP- 585, 588. Montgomery's History of Berks County,
Pennsylvania, in Revolutionary War, pp. 164, 165.
18 TIMOTHY HUNT 4718
Retired Farmer, Grinnell. Born June 6. 183 1.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
In the War of 1861 was a Sergeant in Company I, Twenty-
sixth Illinois Volunteer Infantry from November, 1861, to
June, 1862.
Thomas Hunt Ann Ingalls.
Timothy Hunt Dorothy Worcester.
TIMOTHY HUNT served in the Revolutionary War in
the Massachusetts troops as follows: Enlisted fall of 1775 in
Capt. Enoch Kidder's Company and served one and one-half
months. Enlisted March, 1776, in Capt. John Minot's Com-
pany of Col. Wade's Regiment and served six months. En-
listed December, 1776, in Capt. John Trull's Company of Col.
Thacher's Regiment and served three months. Enlisted fall
of 1776 in Capt. Edward Tanner's Company of Jonathan
Reed's Regiment and served two months.
References : Records of Pension Bureau, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D. C,
88
19 FRANK STUART HUNT 4719
Civil Engineer, Dubuque. Born March 22, 1864.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Timothy Hunt, No. 18 Esther EHzabeth Stuart.
Thomas Hunt Ann Ingalls.
Tiiii'iothy Hunt Dorothy Worcester.
For services of TIMOTHY HUNT see Timothy Hunt, No.
18.
142 GEORGE GRANT HUNTER 12117
Editor and Pubhsher, Des Moines. Born January 21, 1865.
Admitted November 2, 1899.
Wilham B. Hunter Margaret Ann Rhodes.
Wilham Rhodes Mary Maria Baird.
William Rhodes Mary Eberhardt.
Williani Rhodes Ann Wescott.
Anthony Rhodes
WILLIAM RHODES, son of Anthony Rhodes, was ap-
pointed a Lieutenant of the smaller of two vessels which v^ere
ordered equipped for the defense of the Colony of Rhode Isl-
and (Chris. Whipple, Commander), June 12, 1775.
References : Colonial Records of Rhode Island, Vol. 7,
p. 347. History of Rhode Island, Vol. 2, p. 351. Applica-
tion of Bradford Rhodes to the Empire State Society, Na-
tional No. 12,296, State No. 1,396, he being an uncle of this
applicant.
80 EDWARD RIDGEWAY HUTCHINS 4780
Des Moines. Born October 24, 1841.
Admitted July 2y, 1896, by transfer from the New Hamp-
shire Society.
In the War of 1861 enlisted as a private in the First Massa-
89
chiisetts Volunteer Infantry, and in August. 1862, was made
Assistant Surgeon of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteer
Infantry. In 1863 was made Assistant Surgeon United States
Navy Volunteers, and served until December, 1865. Was
Secretary of Iowa Senate, and Commissioner of Statistics of
Iowa.
May 25, 1898, he was appointed Captain and Assistant
Commissary in the United States service, and was stationed
at Falls Church, Virginia; Tampa, Florida, and also served
in the Philippines.
George Hutchins Sarah Rolfe Tucker.
Abel Hutchins Elizabeth Partridge.
Gordon Hutchins Dolly Stone.
GORDON HUTCHINS after the battle of Lexington or-
ganized a company and joined the Regiment of Col. John
Stark, of the New Hampshire troops, and took part in the
battle of Bunker Hill. When Burgoyne's advance in 1777
was known in New Hampshire, the General Assembly, of
which he was a member, was called together. As soon as it
was decided to raise troops to oppose Burgoyne, Col. Hutchins
mounted his horse, and traveling all night with all haste,
reached Concord, New Hampshire, Sabbath afternoon, before
the close of religious worship. Dismounting at the meeting
house door, he walked up the aisle while the minister was
preaching. The latter paused in his sermon and said : "Col.
Hutchins, are you the bearer of any message?" "Yes," replied
the Colonel; "Gen. Burgoyne with his army is on his march to
Albany. Gen. Stark has offered to take the command of the
New Hampshire men, and if we will turn out we can cut off
Burgoyne's march." Then the minister said : "My hearers,
those of you who are willing to go better leave at once." Every
man left the meeting house. The result at Bennington is well
known.
90
He afterward joined the Continental Army in New York,
and was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in Col. Nahnm Bald-
win's New Hampshire Regiment.
■References: New Hampshire State Papers, Vol. 14, pp.
63-65, Vol. 8, p. 248.
54 LANCELOT MINOR KEAN 4754
Lawyer, Sioux City. Born January 11, 1856.
Admitted January 5, 1895.
R. G. H. Kean Jane Nicholas Randolph.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Jane Hollins Nicholas.
Thomas Mann Randolph . . . Martha Jefferson.
Thomds Jefferson Martha Skelton.
Also:
R. G. H. Kean Jane Nicholas Randolph.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Jane Hollins Nicholas.
Thomas Mann Randolph . . . Martha Jefferson.
Thomas Mann Rct^ndolph . . . Ann Gary.
Archibald Gary Mary Randolph.
Also :
R. G. H. Kean Jane Nicholas Randolph.
Thomas Jeft'erson Randolph
Jane Hollins Nicholas.
Wilson Gary Nicholas Margaret Smith.
Robert Garter Nicholas. . . .Ann Gary.
Also:
R. G. H. Kean Jane Nicholas Randolph.
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
Jane Hollins Nicholas.
Wilson Gary Nicholas Margaret Smith.
John Smith of Baltimore . . Mary Buchanan.
91
THOMAS JEFFERSON was a member of the Continental
Congress, Author and Signer of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, Governor of Virginia, 1779 to 1781, member of the Vir-
ginia Conventions of 1774 and 1775; third president of the
United States; author of the Virginia Statute for Religious
Freedom and Founder of the University of Virginia.
THOMAS MANN RANDOLPH, SR., was a Colonel in
the Revolutionary Army.
ARCHIBALD GARY was a Colonel in the Revolutionary
Army, called "Old Ironsides," first Speaker of the Virginia
Senate, and a member of the Virginia Convention of 1 776.
WILSON GARY NICHOLAS was Captain, Major and
Colonel in the Revolutionary Army, and commanded at one
time Washington's Guard. Was Governor of Virginia and
United States Senator.
ROBERT GARTER NICHOLAS, "Treasurer Nicholas,"
was the last treasurer of Virginia as a colony, and the first
treasurer of the commonwealth.
JOHN SMITH was Chairman of the Committee of Safety
of Maryland, and a member of the first constitutional conven-
tion of that state.
References : The Archives and Public Records of the United
States and of Virginia and Maryland. The records of the
Virginia Historical Society — "Old Churches and Families of
Virginia," by Rev. P. P. Slaughter. 'The Page Family in
Virginia," by Dr. R. C. M. Page, of New York. "Pocahontas
and Her Descendants," by Hon. Wyndham Robertson, of Vir-
ginia. Public History.
92
23 JOHN HANCOCK KEATLEY 23
Washington, D. C. Born December i, 1838.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
James Gregg Keatley Emily Hubler.
Christopher Keatley Margaret Gregg.
CHRISTOPHER KEATLEY enlisted in the regiment of
Anthony Wayne of the Pennsylvania line and was in the bat-
tle of Long Island and in the battles of Brandywine and Ger-
mantown and as a Lieutenant was wounded at Germantown
in both arms. Under General Sullivan he took part in the ex-
pedition to chastise the Indians for their massacres at Cherry
Valley and Wyoming, which resulted in the defeat of Sir John
Johnson, Col. Butler, Tories and Col. Joseph Brant, the In-
dian chief and their forces.
References: Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of Pennsylvania — Common Pleas Court of Center County,
Pennsylvania. Records of Bellefontaine, Pennsylvania.
45 ADELBERT HOMER KELLER 4745
Cashier, Emmetsburg. Born January 7, 1870.
Admitted July 23, 1894.
Justus F. Keller Emily Ives.
Stephen Ives Sarah Nutt.
John Ives Mary Thompson.
Joseph Ives Elizabeth Grannis.
JOSEPH IVES served in June. 1777, as a private in Capt.
Oliver Ashley's Company of Col. Benjamin Bellows' Regi-
ment of New Hampshire Militia during the campaign about
Ticonderoga in the summer of 1777, and went with his regi-
ment to the relief of that point when besieged by the enemy in
June, and was engaged with the enemy June 28.
References: Genealogical and Family Records. Records
in the office of the Adjutant General of New Hampshire.
93
53 CHARLES HENRY KELLER 4753
Chief Clerk Machinery Department, B., C. R. & N. R. R.,
Cedar Rapids. Born November 21, 1871.
Admitted December 27, 1894.
Justus F. Keller Emily Ives.
Stephen Ives Sarah Nutt.
John Ives Mary Thompson.
Joseph Ives Elizabeth Grannis.
For services of JOSEPH IVES, see A. H. Keller, No. 45.
143 GEORGE COLVIN KENNEDY
Lawyer, Waterloo. Born February 13, 1864.
Admitted November 22, 1899.
Dennis Augustine Kennedy
Loraine Calista Colvin.
Darius Peckham Colvin . . . Candace Lovina Downer.
William Downer Charlotte Richmond.
John Dozvner Lydia Dunham.
Obediah Dunham Lucy Gillett.
OBEDIAH DUNHAM, M. D., served as a private from
May 19 to June 28, 1779, in Capt. Thos. Sawyer's Company of
Militia, raised in Vermont for the defense of the northern
frontier; served as a private sixty-seven days, from August 16,
1780, in Capt. Eli Noble's Company, of Maj. Eben Allen's de-
tachment, Vermont Militia; served as a private ten days in
July, 1 78 1, under same command, and marched to Saratoga
on the Pownal alarm ; served as a private seventeen days from
October 22, 1781, under same command, in Col. Walbridge's
Regiment in the alarm at Castleton ; served as a private thir-
teen days, under same command, in November, 1781 ; was
prominent in civil affairs; was a delegate representing Pow-
nal. Vermont, at adjourned session of General Convention at
94
Cephas Hunt's, Dorset, Vermont, September 25, 1776, for the
purpose of forming Vermont as a state ; also was a member of
committee voted to form covenant or compact to furnish troops
for the defense of the liberties of the United States ; also mem-
ber of committee to affix fines on all the delegates in the
Militia.
JOHN DOWNER served as a private two days, from Octo-
ber II, 1780, in Capt. Eli Noble's Company of Col. Samuel
Herrick's Regiment of Militia, in the service of Vermont, "70
miles travel."
References: Vermont Historical Gazette, Vol. i, p 218.
History of Governors and Council of Safety, State of Ver-
mont, Vol. I, pp. 26-29-30-33.
58 EVARTS KENT 4758
Pastor, Victor. Born March 12, 1843.
Admitted March 5, 1895. Membership ceased.
Cephas Henry Kent Mary Abby Clark.
Rev. Dan Kent Betsey Griswold.
Cephas Kent Hannah Spencer.
DAN KENT served as a Corporal in Capt. Allen's Com-
pany of Col. Seth Warner's Vermont Regiment one month
and one-half in the summer of 1776; served as a Corporal in
Capt. Underbill's Company of the same regiment one and one-
half months the same summer; served as a Corporal in Col.
Seth Warner's Regiment two months in 1777 and was in the
battle of Bennington; served as a Sergeant in Capt. Ornby's
Company in Col. Walbridge's Regiment of Vermonters in
1778; served as a Corporal on guard duty at Castleton, Ver-
mont, in 1779. He drew a pension, as did his widow after
his death in 1835.
95
CEPHAS KENT was chairman of a Committee of Safety
which was organized at the tavern in Dorset, Vermont, in 1776.
He was active and unceasing in his efforts for independence.
His tavern was the rendezvous of the patriots of his vicinity.
He had two sons in the battle of Bennington.
References: Genealogy of the Kent Family. (Tenny
Bros., 1875). Genealogical Dictionary of New England. Rec-
ords of the Bureau of Pensions, Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C. Records of the Adjutant General of Ver-
mont. Vermont Gazetteer. Thompson's Hemmenways His-
tory of Vermont. History of Dorset, Vermont.
5 LUCIEN SEDGWICK KILBORN 4705
Florist, Marshalltown. Born November 27, 1849.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Lucien Kilborn Rhoda Ann Ball.
Samuel Kilborn Maria Paterson.
John Paterson Elizabeth Lee.
JOHN PATERSON was a delegate to the Provincial Con-
gress of Connecticut in 1774 and 1775; was commissioned
Colonel of a regiment of minute men May 24, 1776, which
was later the Fifteenth Regiment of the Connecticut service;
was Brigadier General and Major General and was one of the
six officers who, as a general court-martial, tried Maj. Andre
as a spy; took part in the battles of Bunker Hill, Trenton,
Princeton, Saratoga, Monmouth and others; was one of the
organizers of the Cincinnati.
References: Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the Revolu-
tion, Vol. I, pp. 537-545-49-51-765- Vol. 2, p. 128.
96
68 CYRIL WADE KING 4768
Wholesale Tobacconist, Ft. Dodge. Born , 1864.
Admitted January 2, 1896.
Appointed May 27, 1898, Captain and Assistant Quarter-
master United States Volunteers with an extended service.
Judson Wade King Mary Jenkins.
John Sherman King xA-nna Bristol.
•Caleb King Sherwin.
CALEB KING served as a Sergeant in Capt. Bartlett's
Company of Col. Wesson's Tenth Massachusetts Battalion,
and was enrolled December 11, 1776, for three years. This Bat-
talion was reorganized August 11, 1779, as the Ninth Regi-
ment, and Caleb King became an Ensign of the Regiment, date
of appointment unknown, but he is recorded as having resigned
April 28, 1780, on account of impaired health.
References: Archives of Record and Pension Office, War
Department, Washington, D. C.
SO HERMAN KNAPP 4750
Treasurer Iowa Agricultural College, Ames. Born Decem-
ber 28, 1863.
Admitted November 24, 1894.
Seaman A. Knapp Marie E. Hotchkiss.
Hiram Hotchkiss Lucinda Pearce.
Rufus Hotchkiss J^oly Doolittle.
Jason Hotchkiss
JASON HOTCHKISS was in Capt. Nathaniel Rummell's
Wallingford Company in the Fifth Battalion, Wadsworth's
Brigade, Connecticut troops, raised in June, 1776, and served
in the defense of New York, being at the right of the line of
American works during the battle of Long Island, August 27,
97
J 776. After the retreat of August 29 and 30, was stationed un-
der Col. William Douglas at Kip's Bay at the time of the
British attack on September 15, and forced to retreat hur-
riedly; was at the battle of White Plains, October 28, 1776.
Term expired December 25, 1776.
References: Records in the Office of the Adjutant General
of Connecticut.
162 EDGAR CULLEN LANE 13062
Banker, Guthrie Center. Born December 25, 1850.
Admitted November 10, 1900.
William Lane Sally M. King.
William Lane Fanny Smith.
Alexander Lane Abigail Mills.
ALEXANDER LANE enlisted in April, 1781, at Pough-
keepsie. New York, and served ten months in the company of
Capt. Livingston, under Col. Castine in the New York State
troops in the Revolutionary War, and his widow received a
pension for such service. He also served in Capt. Conine's
Company in ''Col. Marinus Willett's Regiment of Levies" and
seems to have been present, a boy of eighteen years, at Bur-
goyne's surrender and to have served in that campaign.
References : Records of Pension Bureau, Department of the
Interior, Washington, D. C. State Historian of New York,
Albany, N. Y.
43 THOMAS WINTHROP LIPPINCOTT 4743
Railroad Agent, Boscobel, Wisconsin. Born December 24,
1837-
Admitted March 7, 1894. Membership terminated.
Thomas Lippincott Catherine Wiley Leggett.
Abraham Leggett Catherine Wiley.
98
ABRAHAM LEGGETT enlisted about July, 1776, at
Poughkeepsie, New York, in the Company of Capt. Barnabas
Swartwout and participated in the battle of Long Island, and
for bravery in remaining alone at his post on the advanced
line the night before evacuation by the patriot army was pro-
moted.
He served at Harlem Plains, Chatterton Hill and West
Plains. The succeeding year he received a commission in
Col. Dubois' Regiment of regulars and served to the close of
the war, becoming a Major. On the night of October 6, 1777,
Leggett was captured with the last redoubt taken with the
Forts Clinton and Montgomery, and remained a prisoner un-
til the general exchange of prisoners in 1781. In 1782 he nar-
rowly escaped capture by refugee tories on Tony Island, while
on a tour of duty there. He was one of the founders of the
order of the Cincinnati, at the time of his death being its vice-
president.
References: A narrative of Maj. Abraham Leggett by him-
self, with notes by Chas. J. Bushnell, 1865.
73 JAMES WALKER LOGAN 4773
Insurance Agent, Waterloo. Born March 2, 1826.
Admitted February 21, 1896.
Sanmcl Logan, Sr . . .Mrs. Jane McCague Langan.
SAMUEL LOGAN, SR., in 1777 served two months as a
private under Capt. Joshua Anderson of Pennsylvania troops,
and was in the battle of Brandywine, and the battle of Ger-
mantown ; served two months in the fall of the isame year in
the Company of Capt. Joseph Allison as a substitute on guard
duty along the lines above Philadelphia; in June, 1780, en-
listed under Capt. Hubley and marched from Lancaster, Penn-
sylvania, to Morristown, where he was transferred to Capt.
99
Henderson's Company in Col. Butler's Regiment, and at King's
Ferry was transferred to Capt. Beatty's Company in the Regi-
ment commanded by Gen. Marquis de Lafayette ; in October he
was attached at Morristown to Col. Butler's Regiment; re-
maining in the Huts at Morristown until the following Janu-
ary, when he was discharged.
References: Records in the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
72 WILLIAM CUMMINS LOGAN 4772
Cashier, Leavitt & Johnson's Trust Company, Waterloo.
Born March 10, 1864.
Admitted February 21. 1896.
James Walker Logan, No. 73
Abbie Cummins.
Samuel Logan, Sr . . . Mrs. Jane McCague Langan.
For services of SAMUEL LOGAN, SR., see J. W. Logan,
No. 73.
154 JOHN CAMPBELL LOPER 13054
Druggist, Des Moines. Born January 28, 1851, Union-
town, Ohio.
Admitted May 8, 1900.
Captain in Iowa National Guard July 15, 1889; Major,
January 22, 1892; Lieutenant Colonel, September 3, 1895;
Colonel March 14, 1898; mustered into service as Colonel,
Fifty-first Iowa United States Volunteers, May 30, 1898;
mustered out November i, 1899; served in Philippines one
year; in battle of San Fernando, June 16-22-30, and July 4,
and at Calulat, August 9, 1899.
Ziba Loper Fannie Detwiler.
David Loper Mary Anderson.
Abraham Loper
LofC.
100
ABRAHAM LOPER enlisted in Capt. Richard Howell's
Company, Second Battalion, First Establishment, New Jersey-
Continental line, October 9, 1775, for one year, and took part in
the operations before Quebec in May and June, 1776, and was
discharged at expiration of term of enlistment ; re-enlisted for
the war in John N. Cumming's Company, Second Establish-
ment in 1777, and was promoted Sergeant and took part in
the battles of Short Hills, Brandywme, Germantown and Mon-
mouth, and campaign against the Six Nations in 1779; was
discharged early in 1781.
References: Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of New lersev. Certificate of that officer.
156 JAMES HENRY LOPER 13056
Druggist, Des Moines. Born April 2, 1856, Belmont, Ohio.
Admitted May 10, 1900.
Ziba Loper Fannie Detwiler.
David Loper Mary Anderson.
Abraham Loper
For services of ABRAHAM LOPER, see John C. Loper,
No. 154.
48 FRANCIS HANMER LORING 4748
Publishing Co. Agent, Oskaloosa. Born July 9, 1832.
Admitted July 23, 1894. Has been president of this society.
Served as Captain of Company A, First Regiment Ohio
Militia, in August and September, 1861. Was mustered into
the military service of the United States July 30, 1862, as
Captain of Company G, Ninty-second Regiment Ohio Volun-
teer Infantry, and was mustered out of service June 10, 1865.
The last year of service was detached in command of four
MAJOR FRANCIS HANMPJR LURING
SIXTH PRKSIDENT
101
companies of Eleventh Ohio Vokinteer Infantry, for which
service he received the brevet commission of Major.
Oliver Rice Loring Orinda Howe.
Daniel Loring Lucy Eaton Moore Rice.
Nathaniel Loring
DANIEL LORING, from Sudbury, Massachusetts, served
as a private in Capt. John Nixon's Company in Col. Abijah
Pierce's Regiment of minute men April 19, 1775; served as a
Sergeant in Capt. Moore's Company of Col. John Nixon's
Regiment at battle of Bunker Hill ; served in Capt. Asahel
Wheeler's Company of Sudbury, Massachusetts; enlisted in
Capt. Nathaniel Hayward's Company of Col. Thatcher's Regi-
ment for two months' service in New York, January, 1777.
NATHANIEL LORING was in Capt. Asahel Wheeler's
Company of Sudbury, as appears by the muster roll of the
company, and drew £33 as his pay; hence is supposed to have
seen service.
It is a matter of common knowledge in the family that Maj.
Loring's maternal grandfather, Peter Howe, served in a Ver-
mont Regiment, and was in the battle of Trenton and cap-
tured a Hessian.
References: History of Sudbury, Massachusetts, from 1638
to 1889, by Alfred Sereno Hodson, published by the Town of
Sudbury, pp. 384, 386, 398, 399, 405.
49 CHARLES MAYO LORING 4749
Merchant, Cedar Rapids. Born July i, 1869.
Admitted July 23, 1894.
Enlisted in the Spanish War of 1898, and was a First Ser-
geant in Capt. G. W. Bevers Fifth Battery of Iowa Volun-
102
teer Light Artillery from June 26 to September 5, 1898, when
the Battery was mustered out of service.
Francis Hanmer Loring, No. 48
Delia Armstrong.
Oliver Rice Loring Orlinda Howe.
Daniel Loring Lucy Eaton Moore Rice.
Naithaiiiel Loring
For services of DANIEL LORING and NATHANIEL
LORING, see F. H. Loring, No. 48.
98 JULIAN C. MANCHESTER 4798
Hotel Proprietor, Ottumwa. Born March 7, 1844.
Admitted March 17, 1897.
In the War of 1861 served in a Connecticut Regiment from
January 5, 1864, to September 25, 1865, and was in service be-
fore Petersburg, Virginia, nine months, participating in the
blowing up of Fort Hell, July 20, 1864, and later in the
destruction of Fort Steadman, and was one of the three men
who first entered Petersburg after rebel evacuation.
William Nelson Manchester. . . Content Beach.
William Manchester Susannah Eldridge.
John Manchester Phoebe Steadman.
JOHN MANCHESTER served fourteen months in the
Continental service chiefly guarding the Rhode Island Coast
from incursions of the British. William Manchester, his
father, was captured by the British, and taken on board one
of the enemy's boats, from which he escaped at night by swim-
ming two miles to the shore.
References: United States Senate Documents, Pension
Rolls, first session, Twenty-third Congress, Vol. 12, 1833,
1834. Vols. 13-14 Rhode Island Department, Vol. 12, p. 12.
Records of the Pension Bureau Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.
103
134 ANSON MARSTON 12109
College Professor, Ames. Born May 31, 1864.
Admitted April 21, 1899.
George W. Marston Sarah Scott.
Charles Marston Meribah Morrill.
Hibbard Morrill Deborah Tibbetts.
HIBBARD MORRILL was a private in Capt. Nathan
Sanborn's Company, of Col. Thomas Tash's Regiment, raised
to re-enforce the Continental Army at New York, September,
1776, in the New Hampshire troops; served from September
8 to December 15, 1777, in Capt. Nathan Sanborn's Com-
pany of Col. Stephen Evans' Regiment, which marched from
New Hampshire and re-enforced the Continental Army at
Saratoga, and was wounded at the Battle of Stillwater, and
drew a pension for the wound received ; served from August
6 to August 28, 1778, in Capt. Edward Hilton's Company,
of Col. Josiah Wingate's Regiment of New Hampshire Vol-
unteers, in the expedition to Rhode Island; enlisted for two
months in September, 1779, in Capt. Ira's Company, among
those dispatched from several regiments of Militia for the
defense of Portsmouth.
References: Records in the Adjutant General's office, Con-
cord, New Hampshire. Vol. i, p. 398; Vol. 2, pp. 304-571-
698; Vol. 3, pp. 332-420. Family History and Tradition.
106 PETER MELENDY 10456
Mayor, Cedar Falls. Born February 9, 1823.
Admitted July 26, 1897.
James Melendy Susan Smith.
Thomas Melendy Sarah Patterson.
THOMAS MELENDY served eight months as a private
in Popkins' Company of Gridley's Artillery in the Revolu-
104
tionary Army at Cambridge, in 1 775 ; also served as a pri-
vate in Draper's Company of Gardner's Regiment in the army
at Cambridge in 1775 and 1776, eight months.
References: Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls, Vol.
56, pp. 253-273.
47 NATHANIEL ANSON MERRELL 4747
Attorney-at-Law, DeWitt, Iowa. Born June 26, 1829.
Admitted July 2^,, 1894. Died December 21, 1896.
In the War of 1861 was Captain in the Twenty-sixth Iowa
Volunteer Infantry, and was wounded at Arkansas Post.
Seth Merrell Mabel Sanford.
Nathaniel Merrill Honor Dowd.
NATHANIEL MERRILL of Waterbury, Connecticut, en-
listed May II, 1775, in Capt. Benedict Arnold's (Fifth) Com-
pany in the First Regiment under the first call of the Legisla-
ture of Connecticut, and was discharged December 20, 1775.
This regiment was in the military operations along Lakes
George and Champlain, and at St. Johns, Canada, and was
stationed at Montreal. His company served in the siege of
Boston.
February i, 1777, he enlisted for the war in the Third Regi-
ment of the Connecticut line, and helped repel the British
at Danbury; served under Putnam along the Hudson until
January, 1778; encamped at White Plains with Washington's
Army in the summer of 1778; wintered 1778- 1779 at Read-
ing, and 1 779- 1 780 at Morristown, New Jersey; was with
main army on the Hudson in 1780; wintered 1780-1781 at
Connecticut village above the Robinson House on the Hud-
son ; was in Capt. Durkee's Company of First Regiment, for-
mation of 1781 and 1783; was a pensioner in 1818.
References: Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of Connecticut.
105
io8 JOSEPH HENRY MERRILL 10458
Merchant, Ottumwa. Born December 27, 1827.
Admitted October 28, 1897.
Stevens Merrill Mehitable Worthley Wells.
Joseph Merrill Sarah Copp.
Joshua Capp Sally Poor.
JOSHUA COPP'S services in the Revolutionary War are
mentioned in tht History of Warren, New Hampshire, 1870,
by William Little, and particular mention is made of his
services at the battle of Bennington. The first company raised in
Warren met and drilled on his farm and he was chosen one
of two men appointed to raise the company. His name is
also mentioned as one of a "Committee of Safety," to which
is added "honorable mention." He served in 1775 and in
1780; was chosen one of a committee "to provide soldiers
for the town."
References: New Hampshire Revolutionary War Rolls,
Vol. 3, p. 409.
10 FRANK ASHLEY MILLARD 4710
Manufacturer, Burlington. Born September 6, 1861.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
George Millard Celestia Augusta Baker.
Reuben Baker, Jr Lois Comfort Baxter.
Reuben Baker, Sr Lydia Mason.
Also:
George Millard Celestia Augusta Baker.
Reuben Baker, Jr ] ois Comfort Baxter.
Moses Baxter Comfort Chaffee.
Also:
George Millard Celestia Augusta Baker.
lOG
Ashley Ransom Millard . . . Polly Peck.
Ahiather Millard Amelia Ashley.
David Ashley Hannah Lenore Miller.
Also :
George Millard Celestia Augusta Baker.
Ashley Ransom Millard. . . Polly Peck.
Seth Peck i\nna Northrop.
George Peck Ann Peck.
Gideon Peck Abiah Smith.
REUBEN BAKER, SR., served as a private soldier in
Capt. Michael G. Houdin's Company of the Fifth Massachu-
setts Regiment, Col. Rufus Putnam, six months from July
I, 1780 to January i, 1781, also in Capt. Noah Hinman's Com-
pany of Col. Asa Barnes' Regiment of Militia from October
14, 1 78 1 — ten days.
MOSES BAXTER appears as private in Lexington Alarm
Roll of Capt. Thomals Eustis' Company, which marched on
the alarm of April 19, 1775, from Ruthland to Cambridge.
Served twelve days, residence Ruthland. Vol. 12, p. 83 Mass-
achusetts Revolutionary Rolls.
Appears as private on muster and pay roll of Capt. David
Bents' Company, Col. Jacob Cushing's Regiment. Enlisted
September 5, 1777; discharged November 29, 1777; service
three months, five days at the Northward. Vol. 17, p. 180
Massachusetts Revolutionary Rolls. (See "Short Notes on
the Baker Family.")
ABIATHAR MILLARD is named on the list of soldiers
in the record of Pittsfield Revolutionary service. He is on
the pay roll of Capt. Joel Steven's Company in Col. David
Rossiter's Regiment, and in Lieut. Joel Steven's detach-
ment called out October 1(5, 1780 to October 18, 1780, in the
107
alarm at Fort Edward. Allowed forty miles travel. (Mass-
achusetts Revolutionary Rolls.)
His grandson George Millard remembers his saying that he
was at the battle of "Bemis Heights or Stillwater," and at
the surrender of Burgoyne at Saratoga, October 17, 1777.
DAVID ASHLEY was a private in Lieut. James Hub-
bard's Company, Col. David Rossiter's Regiment, August 22,
1777. Re-enlisted and served in Capt. Joel Steven's Company
in the same regiment, October 12-25, 1781, and "marched on
the alarm at Saratoga." His name is also on the roll of Capt.
John Bacon's Company, Col. Caleb Hyde's Regiment, October
20-8, 1 78 1 and July 3, 1782. (Massachusetts Revolutionary
Rolls, Vol. 20, p. 15; Vol. 22, p. 213; Vol. 17, p. 38; Vol. 30,
p. 25.) (See Ashley Genealogy.)
GEORGE PECK was Corporal in the company of Capt.
Joseph Smith, Fifth Regiment Connecticut troops, Col. David
Waterbury, 1775. (Records of Connecticut men in the War
of the Revolution, p. 69.)
"In August, 1778, a body of Militia under Brig. Gen.
John Tyles served under General Sullivan, and engaged in the
attempts to dislodge the British at Newport. It was present
at the battle of Rhode Island, August 29, 1778."
GIDEON PECK enlisted in said body of Militia in Col.
Chapman's Regiment, Capt. Wheeler's Company, August 3,
1778. Certified to by William E. F. Landers, Colonel and
Assistant Adjutant General Connecticut.
References: Revolutionary War Archives of Massachu-
setts, Vol. 50, file 9; Vol. 19, p. 222, Massachusetts Soldiers
and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Vol. i, p. 495.
108
65 GEORGE BAUGH MILES 4765
Custodian of Building, Council Bluffs. Born February 3,
1836.
Admitted August 20, 1895.
Nathaniel Miles Sarah Phillips.
Josiali Phillips Sarah Thomas.
JOSIAH PHILLIPS served in the War of the Revolution
as a Third Lieutenant in the Second Company of the Seventh
Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia, May 17, 1777, under Capt.
David Phillips, and Lieut. John Phillips, his brothers, of-
ficers of the same company. Family tradition states that he
was often employed as a scout by General Washington while
the army was in Eastern Pennsylvania, and about Valley
Forge.
Nathaniel Miles, great-grandfather of Compatriot George
Baugh Miles, was a Captain in the English Colonial Army,
and had command of Fort Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1756.
Joseph Phillips, brother of Joshiah Phillips, was an Ensign
in the Patriot Army in the Revolutionary War.
References : Historical Records of Philadelphia, Pennsyl-
vania, Vol. 2, p. 90. Pennsylvania Archives, second series.
Vol. 14, p. 90.
75 JOSEPH CROCKETT MITCHELL 4775
Attorney-at-Law and Judge, Ottumvva. Born January 23,
1849.
Admitted March 4, 1896.
James Mitchell Susannah Berry.
Joseph Mitchell Eliza Frances Henderson.
Bennett Henderson Polly Divina Crockett.
loseph Crockett
Mrs. Elizabeth Woodson nee Moore.
109
JOSEPH CROCKETT served as a Captain in the Seventh
Regiment of Foot, Col. Alexander McClenahan, also known
as Third and Seventh Virginia Regiment, commanded by
Lieut. Col. Keith in the Revolutionary War, having been com-
missioned May 7, 1776; was commissioned May 7, 1776,
Major of the Fifth, and Eleventh Regiment Virginia Foot,
Colonel William Russell. Besides other services he raised
two companies for General Daniel Morgan's Rifle Regiment.
He was in the battles of Point Pleasant, White Plains, Mon-
mouth, Brandywine, Princeton and Trenton, and suffered
with the army at Valley Forge, and was at the surrender of
Burgoyne at Saratoga. After the battle of Monmouth he be-
came Lieutenant Colonel. In August. 1779, with the rank of
Lieutenant Colonel, he joined General George Rogers Clarke,
and in that year led the Illinois or Crockett Regiment in the
celebrated campaigns in the Northwest, conducted by that Gen-
eral, remaining beyond the mountains until January, 1782.
In a letter written in 1818 to Henry Clay, he says, "I was
in many of the battles and skirmishes with the Northwestern
Indians on the Miami and helped destroy Chillicothe, and many
other Indian towns in the Northwestern territories. * * *
I served under General Morgan in his many battles and skir-
mishes with the British near Philadelphia, and in New Jersey
and New York. At Red Bank two horses were shot under me
by the enemy's sharpshooters concealed in the river thickets.
I believe I was engaged in as many battles and skirmishes
as any officer or private who served under Generals Wash-
ington, Greene. Morgan, Clarke and others. I was often in
as many as four or five in a week."
In civil life in Kentucky's early history, he was even more
efficient and conspicuous than in the Army of the Revolu-
tion. He was a member of Kentucky's first Constitutional
Convention : was United States Marshal for the District of
110
Kentucky during Jefferson's two terms in the Presidency, and
was the first officer to arrest Aaron Burr.
References'. Records of the Record and Pension office,
War Department, Washington, D. C. Letter of March i,
1818, to Henry Clay, by himself. Roster of "Crockett's Regi-
ment." Kentucky Year-Book, S. A. R., 1896, p. 88.
130 SAMUEL LOGAN MOORE 12105
Banker, Boone. Born April 6, 1845.
Admitted March 22, 1899.
William Moore Rebecca Logan.
John Hughes Rebecca Walker.
Samuel Logmi Eleanor Hughes.
SAMUEL LOGAN enlisted in Capt. Anderson's Company,
of Col. Butler's Regiment of Pennsylvania troops m the Revo-
lutionary War, in Lancaster County, and served eleven
months and received a pension for such service. See J. W.
Logan, No. 75.
References: Records of the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Literior, Washington, D. C.
131 THOMAS BEVERIDGE MOORE 12106
Banker, Des Moines. Born July 2, 1850.
Admitted March 22, 1899.
William Moore Eleanor Hughes.
John Hughes Rebecca Logan.
Samuel Logan Rebecca Walker.
For services of SAMUEL LOGAN, see S. L. Moore, No.
130.
Ill
150 ARTHUR JAMES MORE 12125
Wholesale Druggist, Sioux City. Born November 10, 1857.
Winterdale, Pennsylvania.
Admitted February 7, 1900.
James M. More Rebecca G. Van Horn.
Alexander T. More Nancy Harley.
John More Betty Taylor.
JOHN MORE on the 31st day o£ August, 1779, was a
private in Capt. Benjamin Dubois' Company, of the Eleventh
Regiment of Albany County Militia, commanded by Col. An-
thony Van Bergen, and was in active service in the Revolu-
tionary War. At a public meeting at Harpersfield, Delaware
County, New York, in August, 1775, "Articles of Associa-
tion" were drawn up and signed by the Patriots present, and
a Vigilance Committee was chosen to watch Tories and In-
dians, and among the Patriots who signed the Articles was
John More, the ancestor of our compatriot.
References: Vol. 8 of a manuscript volume entitled
''Treasurers' Certificates," p. 9, in the custody of the Regents
of the University of the State of New York, m the State
Library,
136 WILLIAM HUGHES MORRISON 121 11
Attorney-at-Law, Keokuk. Born July 29, 1840.
Admitted May 17, 1899. Died August 24, 1900.
In the War of 1861 served as a Sergeant of Company E,
Forty-first Regiment, Ohio National Guard, from July i, 1863
to May I, 1864, and as a private of Company C, One Hundred
and Forty-sixth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry from
May 2 to October i, 1864.
Alexander Forshay Morrison
Mary Harris.
Starkey Harris Nancy Ann Hendrix.
James Harris Jane Harris (cousin.)
112
JAMES HARRIS bore a commission as Ensign in the
Militia of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and also served
as Ensign in the New Jersey state troops in the Revolutionary
War.
JANE HARRIS was a recognized patriot who performed
actual service by overt acts of resistance to the authority of
Great Britain during the Revolution by furnishing food and
shelter, and by supplying ammunition by melting her spoons
and other articles of soft metal for the Continental soldiers.
References: Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of New Jersey. Family Tradition.
14 DAVID CHARLES MOTT 4714
Editor, Audubon. Born March 23, 1858.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
George W. Mott Abigail Ball.
William Mott ■■,••• Sarah Edgerton.
John Mott Eleanor Johnston.
JOHN MOTT was Captain of Third Company of Third
Battalion, New Jersey line; was in the battles of Trenton,
Princeton, Germantown, and Brandywine; wintered at Val-
ley Forge, and was in the expedition against the Indians in
the Wyoming Valley.
His home was near Trenton, and he acted as a guide to
General Washington from the crossing of the Delaware until
the battle of Trenton opened.
References: Life and Lineage of General Gershom Mott,
of New Jersey, by his daughter, Kate A. Mott, of Borden-
town, New Jersey.
113
57 ORSON WALLACE MUNSELL 4757
Retired, Des Moines. Born February 9, 1832.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Austin Crane Munsell Lucy Bugbee.
Elnathan Munsell Lucretia Crane.
Silas Munsell Abigail Blodgett.
Jacob Munsell Sarah Bancroft.
SILAS MUNSELL marched in Capt. Wolcott's Company
in 1776 in the Continental Army.
JACOB MUNSELL served in transporting supplies to the
Patriot Army at Boston, and was noted for refusing to be
driven out of his road by Washington's officers, but in re-
sponse to Washington's politeness gave the whole road, say-
ing, "he would not be damned out of his path by any man."
References : Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of Connecticut. Records of the Munsell Family, published
in Albany, New York, 1884.
74 ALVIN JASPER McCRARY 4774
Lawyer, Keokuk. Born March 20, 1844.
Admitted February 27, 1896.
Served as a Corporal in Company F, Forty-seventh Iowa
Volunteer Lifantry from May to September, 1864.
Abner Harrison McCrary Nercissa Mangum.
Rev. John McCrary Ruth Wasson.
James McCrary Isabella Giffen.
JAMES McCRARY served as Captain of a Company of
North Carolina troops during the Revolutionary War, from
Iredel County. The Colonial Records of North Carolina have
been destroyed and exact facts cannot be obtained.
References: History of North Carolina, Vol. 2, p. 370,
giving proceedings of meetings of Committee of Safety.
114
3 ROBERT DOUGLAS McGEEHON 4703
Nurseryman, Atlantic. Born December 23, 1827.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
William McGeehon Margaret Geary.
Duncan McGeehon
CAPT. DUNCAN McGEEHON commanded a company
under Col. Crawford in the expedition against the Indians
on the upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1782. Family tradition
shows that he served five years in the Revolutionary War,
and was in Washington's Army at Valley Forge, and that
during that fearful winter's hardships he lost several of his
toes, amputated on account of being frost-bitten.
References : Vol. 14, second series, Pennsylvania Archives.
The Old Family Bible.
96 EZRA BUTLER NEWCOMB 4796
Clergyman, Keokuk. Born December 18, 1852.
Admitted March 12, 1897.
Horatio Cooley Newcomb Eliza Pabody.
Cooley Newcomb Lectania Bullock.
Hezekiah Newcomb Ruth Burnham.
Hezekiah Newcomb Lydia Hunt.
Also:
Horatio Cooley Newcomb Eliza Pabody.
Ezra Fitch Pabody Mabel Butler.
Chauncey Butler Demia Butler.
Joel Butler Mabel Thompson.
Also:
Horatio Cooley Newcomb Eliza Pabody.
Cooley Newcomb Lectania Bullock.
Hezekiah Newcomb Ruth Burnham.
EUsha Burnham Jerusha Lee.
115
HEZEKIAH NEWCOMB served as an enlisting officer
for the town of Bernardstown, Massachusetts, as the records
of a town meeting in June, 1776, show, viz.: "Voted that
Mr. Hezekiah Newcomb be employed to hire three men for
nine months to serve in the Continental Army."
JOEL BUTLER as a private from August 16. 1777, one
month and twenty days, in Capt. Benjamin's Company of
Col. Joseph Marsh's Regiment; as a private from May i, to
November 30, 1778, seven months and four days in Capt.
Jesse Safford's Company of Provincial troops ; as a private in
August 1780, four days, in Capt. John Marcy's Company of
Militia by order of Col. Eb'nr. Woods. "Under same com-
mand in Maj. Benjamin Wait's detachment that marched in
the alarm when the Indians came to Royalton," Joel Butler
served from October 21 to 29, eight days. Under the same
command that marched the i6th day of March, 1781, by
order of General Bayley, Joel Butler served as a private three
days, all in the Vermont troops. Family tradition relates
that he served in the Expedition to Quebec under Mont-
gomery.
ELISHA BURNHAM was a member of the House of
Representatives of Massachusetts in 1777.
References: The Records of Bernardstown, Mass,achu-
setts, quoted in the Genealogy of the Newcomb Family (J.
B. Newcomb, Elgin, 111.) 1874. Records of the office of the
Adjutant General of Vermont. Journal of the House of
Representatives of Massachusetts of 1777.
119 CLINTON LAFAYETTE NOURSE 10469
Attorney and Conselor at Law, Des Moines. Born lulv
5, 1855.
Admitted May 31, 1898.
116
Joseph Gabriel Nourse . . . Achsah Sophronia Abbott.
Charles Nourse Susan Cameron.
Gabriel Nourse Ann Doudle.
James Nourse Sarah Fonace.
JAMES NOURSE represented Berkely County, in the Vir-
ginia House of Delegates in 1778; was custodian of moneys
"for use of Militia of Berkely and Frederick Counties, Vir-
ginia, who are about to march to re-enforce General Wash-
ington" ; was Commissioner to settle claims of Maryland
against the United States in 1781.
References : Statistical Gazette of the States of Virginia
and North Carolina, 1855, by Edwards. American Archives
fifth series, Vol. 3, pp. 1511-1512, War Department. ''James
Nourse and his Descendants," Marie Catherine Nourse
Tyler, 1897.
102 JAMES GREELEY OLMSTED 10452
Wholesale Boots and Shoes, Des Moines. Born June 25,
1857-
Admitted July 13, 1897.
Hamden A. Olmsted Fanny Sprague.
Elijah Olmsted Polly Smith.
Jthainar Smith Deborah Goram.
In the "Return and Present State of Samuel J. Mather's
Company," dated Fort Trumbull, New London, July 1776, of
Lyme and vicinity, on page 621, Record of Connecticut Men
in the War of the Revolution, appears the name of JTJJAMAR
SMITH; also on page 644 of the same book, he also ap-
pears on the list of Connecticut pensioners in New York,
under the Act of 181 8.
References : Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War,
office of the Adjutant General of Connecticut.
117
26 EDWIN SAMUEL ORMSBY 4726
Banker, Emmetsburg-. Born April 17, 1842.
Admitted December 10. 1893.
Lysander Ormsby Olive Clarinda Burnham.
Samuel Ormsby Rachel Day.
Nathaniel Ormsby Elizabeth Perkins.
NATHANIEL ORMSBY of Norwich, Massachusetts, en-
listed as a private in Capt. Wheeler's Company of Col. Nixon's
Regiment of Massachusetts troops on the 15th day ^ ; Airy.
1777, and died of wounds received in the service on the 28th
day of October, 1777, having enlisted for the war.
References : Records in the office of the Secretary of Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts.
159 ALVIN SCOTT ORMSBY 13059
Real Estate and Loans, Emmetsburg. Born July 2, 1873.
Admitted October 22, 1900.
Alvin Lysander Ormsby
Rose Evermont McGrorty.
Lysander Ormsby Olive Clarinda Burnham.
Samuel Ormsby Rachel Day.
Nathaniel Ormsby Elizabeth Perkins.
NATHANIEL ORMSBY enlisted in Capt. Wheeler's
Company of Col. Nixon's Regiment of Massachusetts troops
in the Continental Army, May 15, 1777, for the war and
served until October 25, 1777, when he died of disease while
still in the service of his country. He was credited to the
town of Norwich, Massachusetts. See E. S. Ormsby No.
26-4726.
References : Records in the office of the Secretary of Com-
monwealth of Massachusetts.
118
29 STEPHEN BENNETT PACKARD 4729
Stock Farmer, Marshal Itown. Born April 25, 1839.
In the War of 1861 was First Lieutenant Company G and
Captain Company B, Twelfth Maine Volunteer Infantry, serv-
ing- in Louisiana until July, 1864, and afterward in Valley
of Shenandoah, Virginia ; was in battles of Port Hudson,
Winchester, Fisher's Hill and Cedar Creek ; was Judge Advo-
cate in New Orleans under General Reynolds; was mustered
out at Portland, Maine in December, 1864. Was United
States Marshal of District of Louisiana from April, 1869
to August, 1876, and Governor of Louisiana from January,
1877 to April, 1877, ^"d United States Consul at Liverpool,
England, from July 1878 to July 1885.
Stephen Packard Roxana Briggs.
Nehemiah Packard Betsey (Bradford?)
N EH EM I AH PACKARD entered the service at the age
of fourteen years as a drummer in the Patriot Army, in 1776,
and served until the war closed, being promoted to drum-
major. He was under the care of his uncle, General Benja-
min Lincoln, who was appointed by General Washington to
receive the surrender and sword of General Lord Cornwallis
at Yorktown. He endured the horrors of the winter at Val-
ley Forge. The family possess one of the: drum sticks with
which he was wont to beat stirring tunes of martial music in
the Revolutionary War.
References: Records of the Pension Bureau, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
123 FRANK DENISON PEET 10473
Banker, Iowa Falls. Born Fox Lake, Wisconsin, June 24,
1862.
Son of Rev. Stephen Denison Peet, Ph. D. and Rachel Kate
119
Moseley ; grandson of Rev. Stephen Peet and Martha Denison ;
great-grandson of Elijah Peet and Betsy Leavenworth ; great-
great-grandson of Lieut. Ehenezer Leavenworth and Elizabeth
Hiird ; great-great-great-grandson of David Leavenworth and
Sarah Hiird; great-great-great-great-grandson of Thomas
Leavenworth and Mary Jenkins; great-great-great-great-
great-grandson of Thomas Leavenworth, who settled in
Woodbury, Connecticut, about 1664, and died there August 3,
1683, and Grace — his wife.
Also a great-grandson of Ensign Amos Denison and
Hannah Williams; great-great-grandson of Joseph Denison
and Bridget Noyes Wheeler; great-great-great-grandson of
Joseph Denison and Prudence Minor ; great-great-great-great-
grandson of George Denison and Mercy Graham ; great-great-
great-great-great-grandson of Capt. George Denison (born
in England in 1718) and Anne Borredell.
Capt. George Denison came to Roxbury, Massachusetts,
about 16, with his father, William Denison; returned to
England in 16 — ; entered the army and served under Crom-
well, won distinction; wounded at Naseby; nursed at the
house of John Borredell, whose daughter he married; re-
turned to Roxbury and settled at Stonington, Connecticut;
was a Captain of the Militia; participated in the great "Swamp
Fight" in 1675; personally captured Canochet, chief of the
Narragansetts 1676, and was the most daring and conspicu-
ous Indian fighter of his time.
Also great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John
Graham and Desire Rowland ; great-great-great-great-great-
great-grandson of John Rowland (the Pilgrim and last male
survivor of the Mayflower) and Elizabeth Tilley.
Also great-great-grandson of PVillimn Williams and
Martha Wheeler; great-great-great-grandson of John Wil-
liams and Desire Denison; great-great-great-great-grandson
of John Williams and Martha Wheeler; great-great-great-
120
great-great-grandson of Robert Williams and Elizabeth Stan-
ton, who settled in Roxbury, Massachusetts, about 1638.
Lieut. Ebcnezcr Leavenworth was born in Woodbury,
Connecticut, 1733; lived in the same place and died there
March 19, 1778. He was a Lieutenant in the Connecticut
Militia; served during the Revolution.
Ensign AMOS DENISON was born at Stonington, Con-
necticut, 1756; died there 1835. He enlisted for three years,
May 10, 1777 as a private in Capt. Eldredge's Company of
Col. Jedediah Huntington's Regiment, First Connecticut, Con-
tinental line, and was discharged May, 1780. This regi-
ment took the field at Peekskill, New York; joined Wash-
ington in Pennsylvania in September ; engaged on the right
flank at Germantown October 4; wintered at Valley Forge;
was in Huntington's Brigade in the battle of Monmouth, and
in 1778 and 1779 served on the Hudson and in repelling
Tryon's invasion. He was aLso an Ensign in Capt. William
Stanton's Company of the Eighth Regiment, Connecticut
Militia, ordered out by Col. Oliver Smith for the defense of
the State in 1780.
JOSEPH DENISON was born at Stonington, Connecticut,
1707 and died there 1795. He was appointed on the Commit-
tee of Correspondence for Stonington, July 11, 1774 to collect
supplies for the sufTering brethren in Boston. He served as a
private in Capt. John Tyler's Company of Col. Samuel H.
Parson's Sixth Regiment, Connecticut, Militia, enlisting May
8, and discharged December 17, 1775. This regiment was
raised on the first call for troops ; was on duty at New Lon-
don until after the battle of Bunker Hill, when it was ordered
to Cambridge, and took post at Roxbury, where it remained
until discharged. He led the forces resisting attack on Ston-
ington by the English Brigade "Rose."
WILLIAM WILLIAMS was born at Stonington. Con-
necticut, 1716 and died there 1801. In April, 1775, he was
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appointed by the Legislative Assembly a member of the Coun-
cil of Safety; was Representative from Stonington to the
Assembly of Connecticut in 1775 and was Select-man of
Stonington seven years including the year 1783.
References: Connecticut State Records, especially Con-
necticut Men in the Revolution, pp. I150-56 1-639.
7 FRANKLIN OILMAN PIERCE 4707
Stone Business, Mayor of Marshalltown. Born December
7, 1868.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
William Pierce Martha Jane Moore.
William Pierce Elizabeth Tanner.
John Pearce Eunice Briggs.
JOHN PEARCE served as Ensign in the First Regiment,
State Brigade, Rhode Island, under Continental pay, and as
First Lieutenant in Capt. Nathaniel Hawkins' Company of
Col. Stanton's Regiment of Rhode Island.
References: Rhode Island Colonial Records, Vol. 7. p.
599-1776; Vol. 8, p. 79-1776.
148 CHARLES LEON PRESCOTT 12123
Merchant, Forest City. Born July 25, 1868
Admitted January 24, 1900.
Charles Taylor Prescott. . .Harriet Philena Babcock.
Jeremiah Prescott Mary Miles.
Jeremiah Prescott Mary Rackliff.
JEREMIAH PRESCOTT was entered on Return of Com-
missioned Officers in Col. Thomas Stickney'sNew Hampshire
Regiment, March ,-5, 1776, as Captain; was a First Lieuten-
ant in Col. John McClarey's Regiment, raised to join General
122
John Stark at Bennington, mustered and paid in full Septem-
ber 9, 1777, reinforced the Northern Continental Army at
Saratoga.
References: Revolutionary War Rolls, State of New
Hampshire.
164 HOMER EUGENE RANDOLPH 13064
Commercial Salesman, Webster City. Born August 15,
1869.
Admitted December 14, 1900.
Rollin Herd Randolph Elizabeth Ackerman.
Patterson Jenkinks Randolph. Jannette Herd.
Joseph Patterson Randolph . . . Emma Hurlbut.
Rufus Hurlbut
RUFUS HURLBUT was a soldier in the Continental Army
and enlisted from Connecticut. He was promoted for gal-
lantry as a Lieutenant and second in command under
Capt. Ledyard at Fort Griswold near New London, Con-
necticut, when that fort was attacked by a force under Bene-
dict Arnold September 6, 1781. At the battle of Fort Gris-
wold Lieut. Hurlbut was killed. Afterward upon the capitu-
lation of the garrison a large part of the prisoners were mas-
sacred, Capt. Ledyard being run through with his own sword
in the hands of a British officer to whom he had surrendered
it. The name of Lieut. Rufus Hurlbut appears on the granite
monument erected on the site of Fort Griswold to commemor-
ate the event and perpetuate the names of the men who per-
ished in that battle.
References : Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolu-
tion, p. 577. Arnold's attack upon New London, Septem-
ber 6, 1781, wherein the name of Rufus Hurlbut appears.
COL. LF.VI BEARDSLEY RAYMOND
SECOND PRESIDENT
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35 LEVI BEARDSLEY RAYMOND 4735
Editor and Publisher, Hampton. Born July 3, 1838.
Admitted March 7, 1894.
Second President of this Society.
In the War of the Rebellion served in Company G, Sixth
Regiment, Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, "Iron Brigade."
Served fifteen years in Iowa National Guard, resigned as
Lieutenant Colonel of the Sixth Iowa National Guard.
Hiram Raymond Elizabeth Lane.
Lemuel Raymond Hannah Underwood.
LEMUEL RAYMOND served as a private soldier in sev-
eral organizations of minute men, and in the Third Con-
necticut Regiment from January i, 1781 to December 31,
1 78 1, and was wounded in the service.
References : Raymond Genealogy in the Library of the
State Historical Society of Massachusetts. Men of Connecti-
cut in the Revolutionary War. Records of the United States
Pension Bureau. Washington. D. C.
62 GEORGE HERBERT RICHARDSON 4762
Banker, Belmond. Born February 7, 1844.
Admitted April 29, 1895.
Former President of this Society.
George Herbert Richardson.. Cicilia Wells Church.
Calvin Richardson Nancy Streeter.
Wyman Richardson Ruth Lane.
Also:
George Herbert Richardson . Cicilia Wells Church.
Calvin Richardson Nancy Streeter.
'Barazillai Streeter Nancy Brown.
Joseph Streeter Mary Inman.
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Also:
George Herbert Richardson . Cicilia Wells Church.
Calvin Richardson Nancy Streeter.
Wyman Richardson Ruth Lane.
Elkinah Lane
WYMAN RICHARDSON served as a private in Capt. S.
Richardson's Fourth Company of Col. Daggitt's Regiment of
Massachusetts troops in Eighth Campaign at York; also
served on alarm caused by the battle of Bunker Hill.
JOSEPH STREETER served as a private, and BARA-
ZILLAI STREETER, his son, served in the Revolutionary
War from Cumberland, Rhode Island, the former as a Lieu-
tenant in Capt. Lewis Tower's Second Company, or Train-
band, and the latter as a private in Lieut. Nathan C. Gould's
Division. February 24, 1777.
ELKINAH LANE served in Capt. Joseph Hammond's
Company, who marched at sunrise on April 21, 1775, from
Swanzey to Cambridge.
References: Records in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Historical Society of
Newport, Rhode Island. The Historical Society of Provi-
dence Rhode Island.
24 HENRY HARRISON ROOD 4724
Merchant and Banker, Mt. Vernon. Born February 6,
1841.
Admitted March 9, 1894.
In the War of 1861 was private. Second Lieutenant, First
Lieutenant and Adjutant, Thirteenth Iowa Volunteer Infan-
try; Judge Advocate Fourth Division. Seventeenth Army
Corps, December, 1863, and January, 1864. Commissary of
Musters on Staff of General F. P. Blair, Seventeenth Army
Corps, from September, 1864, to expiration of service. Was
HON. GEORGE HERBERT RICHARDSON
FIFTH PRESIDENT
125
with Regiment in all its marches, sieges and battles. Has
been on the staff of four Governors of Iowa, being now
Colonel.
Nathaniel Rood Mercy Nye.
Daniel Rood Elizabeth Grover.
DANIEL ROOD was a member of a military company
formed at Bennington, Vermont, in 1764, under Capt. John
Fassett; was in the Battle of Bennington, in Capt. Samuel
Robinson's Company in the Vermont troops, August 16, 1777,
served in Lieut. Moses Johnson's Company of Col. William
Williams' Regiment of Vermont troops, from the 25th day of
September to the 17th day of October, 1777, and twenty-six
days at another time, and also six days in 1781.
References: Land Records of Greenwich, Washington
County, New York. Vermont Historical Magazine, pp. 146
to 160. Records in the office of the Adjutant General of
Vermont.
44 WELLINGTON RUSSELL 4744
Dealer in Grain and Lumber, Liscomb. Born April 14,
1830.
Admitted July 23, 1894.
Served as private, Corporal, Sergeant and Second Lieuten-
ant in Company C, Thirty-fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry,
from April 22, 1862, to August 25, 1865.
Amos Russell Hannah Hubbard.
Jonathan Russell Anna Ashley.
JONATHAN RUSSELL enlisted July 11, 1777, in Capt.
Aaron Osgood's Company of Col. Williams' Regiment of
Massachusetts troops, for service in the Northern Department,
and v^as discharged August 12, 1777.
References : Records in the office of the Secretary of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
126
69 BRYANT WELLINGTON RUSSELL 4769
Lumber and Grain Dealer, Liscomb. Born September 17,
1874.
Admitted January 17, 1896.
Wellington Russell, No. 44. . Fannie Biss Bryant.
Amos Russell Hannah Hubbard.
Jonathan Russell Anna Ashley.
For services of JONATHAN RUSSELL, see Wellington
Russell, No. 44. Claims descent also from DAVID MASON,
Second Lieutenant of Knox's Artillery Regiment of Massa-
chusetts troops in Revolutionary War.
77 IRA BURWELL RYAN 4777
Retired Pastor, Leon. Born November 6, 1809.
Admitted March 23, 1896. Died June 19, 1899.
In the War of 1861 he was mustered into the United States
military service on the 26th day of April, 1862, in Company
H of the Sixth Missouri Cavalry. He was largely employed
as a scout and in buying horses for the Government. Having
suffered a sunstroke he was discharged October 4, 1862. He
had three sons in the Union Army.
John Ryan Ruth Burwell.
JOJiN RYAN served as a private in the Third Regiment
(Hunterdon County) New Jersey Militia; also as a private in
Hazen's Regiment, Continental Army, during the Revolu-
tionary War.
References : Records of the office of the Adjutant General
of New Jersey.
127
8; HENRY SABIN 4787
Educator, Des Moines. Born October 2t^, 1829.
Admitted January 9, 1897.
Noah Sabin Betsy Cleveland.
Jonathan Sabin Mary May.
JONATHAN SABIN served in the War of the Revolu-
tion, having enlisted September 8, 1776, in Capt. Amassa
Keyes' Company of Maj. Backin's Regiment of Light Horse
Connecticut troops, and was discharged November 2, 1776.
In September, 1776, this company was ordered to the army
near New York, and in the order for their discharge Wash-
ington highly complimented the company for ''faithful ser-
vices and the cheerfulness and alacrity they have shown upon
all occasions."
References : Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of Connecticut.
II JOHN RANDALL SAGE 471 1
Director Weather and Crop Service, Des Moines. Born
December 29, 1832.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Daniel Sage Phebe Rider.
Benjamin Sage
BENJAMIN SAGE and DANIEL SAGE, his brother,
were with Arnold in the Quebec Expedition and endured un-
speakable sufferings in the retreat from Canada. They were
also with Connecticut troops under General Gates at the time
of Burgoyne's surrender in October, 1777, and served in a
New York regiment commanded by Col. Van Renssalaer.
Family tradition says that Benjamin Sage died in 1784 from
the effects of the hardships endured in the service. Twenty
128
of the descendants of David Sage, the progenitor of the family
in America, who settled at Middletown, Connecticut, were in
the patriot armies of the Revolution.
References: Genealogical Record of the Descendants of
David Sage, one of the first settlers of Middletown, Connecti-
cut, published in 1878 by Elisha Sage, of Cromwell, Con-
necticut.
138 JOHN PLEASANT SAVAGE 121 13
Physician and Surgeon, Sioux City. Born July 9, 1856.
Admitted July 22, 1899.
George Swingle Savage Cleora Bright.
Pleasant M. Savage .... Susan Swingle.
George Szvingle Alary Savage (nee Phillips.)
GEORGE SWINGLE volunteered in the flying camp of a
company in Maryland to serve six months as a private in Col.
Griffith's, Col. Shryock's. and Major Mantz's Regiment, in
Capt. Clapsaddle's Company, Washington County; found his
own rifle, accoutrements and ammunition and joined the regi-
ment at Philadelphia in June, 1778, was present at action
against British ship on Hudson near Fort Washington; re-
ceived personal orders from General Washington as to dis-
posal of Hessian soldiers captured and was directed to return
them to the British lines, which he did ; was in various service
at Hackensach and Brunswick bridges destroyed; in contact
with General Small wood of Maryland, in retreat to Trenton
and march to Philadelphia, where he was discharged; was
afterwards offered by the Governor of Maryland a commis-
sion as Captain of a Company in the Second Maryland Militia,
Col. Swearingen, which he accepted, and later the Governor
commissioned him Major in the same regiment. Through his
enterprise he obtained and furnished the military authorities
129
information which enabled them to thwart the plans of the
Tories to seize 400 stands of arms at Williamsport, Pensyl-
vania, and secure the British prisoners of Bnr^oyne's Army;
100 of the Tories being arrested and confined in the Hagers-
town jail.
References: Records of the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
9 IRAM ALLEN SAWYER 4709
Wholesale Merchant, Keokuk. Born February 16, 1839.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
In the War of 1861 was a Corporal in Third Iowa Volun-
teer Infantry, May, 1861 to 1864. Promoted to Lieutenant
Sixtieth Unitjed States colored Infentry, and served until
May, 1865.
Allen Sawyer Clarissa Hazen.
Ephraim Sawyer, Jr Mary Allen.
Ephraim Sazvycr Susannah Richardson.
MAJ. and LIEUT. COL. EPHRAIM SAWYER of Lan-
caster, Massachusetts, served in Col. Whitcomb's Regiment
of Militia from April 19 to August i, 1775.
EPHRAIM SAWYER, IR., served in same regiment as
Sergeant and Lieutenant, and afterwards as Captain in Col.
Timothy Bigelow's Regiment ; was transferred to Col. Daniel
Henley's Regiment in 1778, and became a Supernumerary
Captain April 18, 1779. Both men were in the skirmishes
preceding the siege of Boston, and Capt. Ephraim Sawyer
was in the battles of Long Island, Harlem, Quaker Hill, and
capture of Burgoyne.
By intermarriage of Mary Piatt Prescott, daughter of John
Prescott, and Thomas Sawyer, an ancestor of Compatriot
Sawyer, in 1647, his family was closely related to Col. William
130
Prescott, of Bunker Hill fame. Col. William Prescott was
the ancestor of Prescott, the historian.
References: Records of Bureau of Pensions, Department
of Interior, Washington, D. C. Records of the office of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
30 EUGENE SECOR 4730
Real Estate, Loans and Banking, Forest City. Born May
13, 1841.
Admitted February 13, 1894.
Alson Secor Sarah Caroline Knapp.
Gidney Secor Catharine Strang.
Isaac Secor Mary Gidney.
ISAAC SECOR was a private in Capt. Jacob Onderdonck's
Company of Col. Hawk's Regiment, Haverstraw Precinct,
New York Militia, in service in Revolutionary War. His ma-
ternal great-grandfather, David Knapp, was a member of a
company of minute men or committee of safety, which met in
a Presbyterian Church at Yorktown, Westchester County,
New York, whose arms were captured by the British.
References: Archives of the State of New York. His-
tories of Westchester and Putnam Counties. Family Records
and Traditions.
95 WILLARD SECOR 4795
Real Estate and Loans, Forest City. Born June 28, 1869.
Admitted March 2, 1897.
Eugene Secor Millie M. Spencer.
Alson Secor Caroline Knapp.
Gidney Secor Catharine Strang.
Isaac Secor Mary Gidney.
Ambrose Secor, Jr
Ambrose Secor (Sicarde)
131
Ambrose Sicarde was a Huguenot who came from France
about 1 68 1.
For service of ISAAC SEC OR see Eugene Secor, No. 30.
147 DAVID SECOR 12122
Banker, Winnebago City, Minnesota. Born January 6,
1836.
Admitted January 19, 1900.
In the War of 1861 was with Sherman on the ''March to the
Sea" as a private in Company C, Second Iowa Volunteer In-
fantry.
Alson Secor Sarah Caroline Knapp.
David Knapp Abigail Lee.
David Knapp Phebe Horton,
Also:
Alson Secor Sarah Caroline Knapp.
David Knapp Abigail Lee.
John Lee Sarah Ferine.
Also:.
Alson Secor Sarah Caroline Knapp.
Gidney Secor Catharine Strang.
John Strang Drusilla Dillingham.
Also:
Alson Secor Sarah Caroline Knapp.
Gidney Secor Catharine Strang.
Isaac Secor Mary Gidney.
DAVID KNAPP was a member of Col. Samuel Drake's
Regiment, New York Militia, of Westchester County, and
served from 1778 to 1781.
JOHN LEE served in Capt. John Hayatt's Company of
132
Militia, ranging after Tories and guarding against their join-
ing the enemy in the months of June and July, 1779.
JOHN STRANG served in Col. Samuel Drake's Regiment,
above named, from 1778 to 1781.
For service of ISAAC SEC OR see Eugene Secor, No. 30.
References: Certificate of Comptroller of State of New
York.
151 ELLSWORTH EUGENE SECOR 130.^1
Bank Cashier, Buffalo Center. Born January 2, 1864.
Admitted March 22, 1900.
David Secor Samantha E. Van Curan.
Alson Secor Sarah Caroline Knapp.
Gidney Secor Catherine Strang.
Isaac Secor Mary Gidney.
Ambrose Secor, Jr
For services of ISAAC SECOR see Eugene Secor, No. 30.
For services of DAVID KNAPP, great-great-grandfather,
of JOHN LEE, great-great-grandfather, and of JOHN
STRANG, great-great-grandfather, see David Secor, No. 147.
For references, see the. same.
38 THOMAS HAMILTON SIMMONS 4738
General Freight Agent Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern Railroad, Cedar Rapids. Born May 28, 1849.
Admitted May 25, 1894.
Charles Simmons Lucy Ann Gilman.
Gideon Gilman Lois White.
Benjamin White Silence Baker.
For services of BENJAMIN WHITE see C. C. Gilman,
No. 22.
133
137 FRANK SIMONDS 121 12
Bookkeeper, Ottumwa. Born October 19, 1869.
Admitted June 17, 1899.
W. P. Simonds Jane Virden.
Daniel Simonds Susan White.
Andrezv White
ANDREW WHITE enlisted for the War of the American
Revolution July 12, 1779, in Capt. Daniel Livermore's Com-
pany of Col. Scammell's Regiment (Third) New Hampshire
troops. Promoted to Corporal June i, 1780.
References : New Hampshire Revolutionary Records,
Vol. 3, p. 30.
8 ERASTUS BURROWS SOPER 4708
Lawyer and Banker, Emmetsburg. Born September 15,
1841.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
In the War of 1861. Enlisted Company K, First Regiment,
Iowa Infantry Volunteers, April 18, 1861. Re-enlisted Com-
pany D, Twelfth Regiment, Iowa Infantry Volunteers, pri-
vate, September 20, 1861 ; Sergeant, October 26, 1861 ; Sec-
ond Lieutenant April 8, 1862; First Lieutenant, March 24,
1863; Captain, March 23, 1864.
Jacob Soper Celinda Harvey.
John Soper Adah Brundage.
Timothy Soper Sarah Bronk.
Also:
Jacob Soper Celinda Harvey.
Amasa Harvey Clara Ackley.
Amasa Harvey Eunice
Also:
Jacob Soper Celinda Harvey.
John Soper Adah Brundage.
Masten Brundage
134
TIMOTHY SO PER enlisted in May, 1775, in Capt. S.
Griswold's Company of Hinman's Regiment, Connecticut
troops, and served one month as a private and seven mortljs
as a Sergeant in the Northern Campaign; served duriitg the
summer of 1777 in Capt. Chamberlain's Company of Col.
Morris Graham's Regiment, in General Clinton's Brigade of
Duchess County, New York Militia, in active service; and in
fall of 1779 was in active service in Capt. Silas Huested's
Company of the same regiment. Helped place the great chain
across the Hudson river.
AM AS A HARVEY served as a private in Capt. Jones'
Company of Col. Latimer's Regiment of Connecticut Militia
in the campaign against Burgoyne in 1777, and was in the
battles of September 19 at Bemis' Heights, and October 7, at
Stillwater, which led to his surrender.
MAST EN BRUNDAGE was a private in Captain Jacob
Purdy's Company, of Col. Thomas Thomas' Regiment, of
Westchester County, New York Militia.
References: Records of Pension Bureau, Departmen; of
the Interior, Washington, D. C. Archives of State of New
York. Connecticut Men in the Revolutionary War.
33 ERASTUS BURROWS SOPER. JR. 4773
Lawyer, Emmetsburg. Born April 15, 1872.
Admitted February 2, 1894.
Erastus Burrows Soper, No. 8 . . . Elizabeth Cory.
Jacob Soper . . Celinda Harvey.
John Soper Adah Brundage.
Timothy Soper Sarah Bronk.
Also:
Jacob Soper Celinda Harvey.
Amasa Harvey Clara Ackley.
Amasa Harvey Eunice
135
Also:
Jacob Soper Celinda Harvey.
John Soper A.dali Brundage.
Hasten Brundage
For services of TIMOTHY SOPER, AM AS A HARVEY
and MASTEN BRUNDAGE, see Erastus B. Soper. Xc o.
55 EMMET HARLAND SOPER 4755
Lawyer, Estherville. Born December 14, 1873.
Admitted January 8, 1895.
Erastus Burrows Soper, No. 8 . . . Elizabeth Cory.
Jacob Soper CeHnda Harvey.
John Soper Adah Brundage.
Timothy Soper Sarah Bronk.
Also:
Jacob Soper Cehnda Harvey.
Amasa Harvey Clara Ackley.
Amasa Harvey Eunice
Also:
Jacob Soper Celinda Harvey.
John Soper Adah Brundage.
Hasten Brundage
For services of TIMOTHY SOPER, AHASA HARVEY
and MASTEN BRUNDAGE, see E. B. Soper, No. 8.
76 ALEXANDER LOUIS SORTOR 4776
Publisher Trade Journal, Wholesale Grocer, Mason City.
Born July 15, 1867.
Admitted March 20, 1896.
136
Was Captain of Company A, Fifty-second Iowa Infantry
Volunteers in Spanish-American War.
Alexander Louis Sortor Nancy Ada Sprague.
Isaac B. Sortor Jane E. Wilson.
Elijah Sortor Margaret Meddaugh.
Henry Sortor Charity
HENRY SORTOR served in the Revolutionary War
twelve months as a private in the New Jersey troops, a part of
time under Captain Polhemus, in the Regiment of Col. Freel-
inghuysen, from Somerset County, and perhaps longer, as
family tradition states that he was in the battles of White
Plains and Trenton and was at Valley Forge.
References: Records of the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Interior, as to pension granted to Charity Sortor,
his widow.
145 SAMUEL HAY SHEAKLEY 12120
Superintendent of Schools, Des Moines. Born October 16,
1863.
Admitted December 23, 1899.
William Harvey Sheakley Lydia Hay.
Moses Sheakley Susannah Limbert.
Thomas Limbert Sarah Huston
William Huston
WILLIAM HUSTON was appointed Ensign of Hartley's
Additional Continental Regiment of Pennsylvania troops in
May, 1777; Second Lieutenant and Adjutant, June 2, 1778;
Regiment designated Eleventh Pennsylvania, December 16,
1778; First Lieutenant, February 24, 1780; transferred to
Sixth Pennsylvania, January 17, 1781 ; transferred to Second
Pennsylvania, January i, 1783; served to June 3, 1783.
References: Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol.
10, pp. 405-781- Vol. II, pp. 51-52. Heitman's Historical
Register of the Officers of the Continental Army.
137
17 CHARLES DANA SHEPARD 4717
Carpenter, Gilbert Station. Born July 20, 1859.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Jacob T. Shepard Elizabeth Dana Brown.
Jacob Shepard Mahala Tisdale.
Jacob Shepard Hodges.
JACOB SHEPARD served as Second Lieutenant of Capt.
Trow's Company of Col. Daggett's Regiment of Massachu-
setts Militia in 1778, and as First Lieutenant of Capt. David
Clapp's Company of the same regiment, Elisha May being
Colonel, in 1781.
References: Original commissions in possession of the
compatriot.
169 HARRY HOOKER SKINNER 13069
Insurance, Des Moines. Born June 22, 1878.
Admitted January 9, 1901.
William D. Skinner Katherine Hooker.
Edv^ard Foster Mills Hooker . .Sarah Pengree.
Thomas Hart Hooker, Jr Betsey Mills.
Thomas JJart Hooker, Sr Sarah Whitman.
THOMAS HART HOOKER, SR., enlisted May 10, 1775,
as a private in the Second Company of Col. Spencer's Regi-
ment of Connecticut troops, and marched with the Regiment
to Boston, being among the first troops from that state to
reach that city. In order to be consistent in fighting for free-
dom, he freed his own slaves before marching. He also had
every man in his own company supplied with shoes before he
left Hartford. Accustomed to luxury, he refused to take any
body servant into the army. His regiment was stationed at
Roxbury in the trenches facing the British works on Boston
Neck, and their service was very severe. He died of disease
138
in camp on the 26th day of November, 1775, and was buried
with others in a common burial ground. After the evacua-
tion the attempt to identify his remains was tinavaiHng, and
"today his dust, with that of other patriot soldiers who gave
their lives for their country's cause, rests peacefully beneath
the noise and turmoil of the streets of the City of Boston."
References: Connecticut Revolutionarv Records. Rolls
of Col. Spencer's Regiment. West Hartford .History. Fam-
ily History.
66 JAMES DAVID SPALDING 4766
Lumber Merchant, Sioux City. Born January 12, 1844.
Admitted December 16, 1895.
Asa Gore Spalding Susan Burson Welding.
Harry Spalding Lemira Satterlee.
John Spalding Wealthy Ann Gore.
Simon Spalding Ruth Shepherd.
SIMON SPALDING served in the Revolutionary War as
Second Lieutenant and First Lieutenant in Capt. Ransom's
Westmoreland County, Connecticut Companies (Wyoming
Valley, Pennsylvania), and after June 23, 1778, as Captain
of the consolidation of the two Westmoreland County Com-
panies, known as Spalding's Independent Company. From
about January i, 1777, he served in General Washington's
Army, and was in the New Jersey campaigns, battles of
Brandywine and Germantown; wintered at Valley Forge,
1777 and 1778; was in defense of Fort Mifflin in November,
1778; he commanded a force sent to defense of Wyoming
Valley in the latter part of June, 1778, but arrived too late to
prevent massacre, but built a fort and blockhouse and re-
mained in the valley to protect settlers until fall of 1780, tak-
ing part meantime in General Sullivan's expedition against
the Six Nations. His Company was transferred to the First
139
Regiment, Connecticut Line, from 1781 to 1783, giving him
more than six years of Continental service. He was after-
wards General of Pennsylvania State Troops.
JOHN SPALDING enlisted as a private in the army in the
Revolutionary War from Connecticut, and became a Colonel
of Pennsylvania State Troops.
References: Connecticut Men in the War of the Revolu-
tion, p. 263. Lossing's Field Book of the Revolution. Gen-
ealogy of the Spaldings.
107 ISAAC COOK SPEERS 10457
Manager Opera House, Marshalltown. Born March 15,
1867.
Admitted October 4, 1897.
Jacob B. Speers Dr. Mary Elizabeth Cook.
James Crawford Cook, Jr.
Margaret Smith.
James Crawford Cook . .Mary Bell.
Col. Edward Cook Martha Crawford.
COL. EDWARD COOK served during the Revolutionary
War in civil and military capacities in aid of the patriot cause,
as follows, among others :
A member of Committee of Provincial Conference (Penn-
sylvania), held in Philadelphia, June 18, 1775. and again on
June 18, 1776; a delegate to convention of July 15, 1776; ap-
pointed in 1777 by the General Assembly a commissioner to
meet others from other states in New Haven, Connecticut,
November 22, 1777, to regulate prices of commodities; a Sub-
Lieutenant in Westmoreland County, March 21, 1777, and
in June, (21) 1780, commander of a battalion of
Rangers for frontier defense in 1781 ; a County Lieutenant of
Militia of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, appointed
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January 5, 1782; President- Judge of the Common Pleas and
Quarter Sessions of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, at
July term, 1782, held at Hannastown, when it was attacked
and burned by Indians. The office of County Lieutenant to
which he was appointed as stated above carried with it the
military title of Colonel.
References: Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol.
3, pp. 679-637-681-776-775-702-693-780. History of the
County of Westmoreland, Pennsylvania, by George D. Albert,
pp. 79-203-295-139. History of Fayette County, Pennsyl-
vania, by F. Ellis, pp. 118-807. Articles by Dr. William H.
Egle in Pennsylvania Magazine of History, Vol. 7,.
34 DAMON NOBLE SPRAGUE 4734
Attorney at Law, Wapello. Born March 21, 1832.
Admitted February 13, 1894.
President of Society.
Jenks Smith Sprague Prudence Noble.
Jonas Sprague Esther Bates.
Oliver Bates Abigail Teft.
John Bates Excrience Bragg.
Also grandson of Jedediah Sprague and Freelove Jenckes.
OLIVER BATES served in Capt. Blackmar's Company of
Col. Christopher Lippitt's Regiment of Rhode Island In-
fantry, his name appearing on the regimental roll in Septem-
ber, 1776. It is a family tradition that he was under Washing-
ton at the battles of Trenton and Princeton, and that his ser-
vices only ended with the war.
Tradition says EXPERIENCE BRAGG carried water all
one day to the American soldiery during the Revolution.
The Spragues were descended from Jonathan Sprague, who
was a prominent office-holder in Rhode Island in 1695. The
HON. DAMON NOBLE SPRAGUP]
SEVENTH PRESIDENT
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Jenckes descended from Joseph Jenckes, who came over with
Wiiithrop in 1630, whose descendant of his descendant, Jo-
seph, became Governor of Rhode Island Colony.
References: Military papers and records of the Rhode
Island Historical Society, Vol. 88, p. 107. History of Otsego
County, New York, published 1878, pp. 247-248. Family
Bible of Jenks Smith Sprague, above named.
165 ARTHUR SPRINGER 13065
Lawyer, Wapello. Born September 30, 1855.
Admitted December 26, 1900.
Francis Springer Nancy Roseman Colman.
Nathaniel Springer Mary Clark.
Nathaniel Springer
NATHANIEL SPRINGER was First Lieutenant of Capt.
John Berry's Third Company, Col. McCobb's Lincoln County
(Maine) Regiment of Massachusetts troops, the State of
Maine then being a part of Massachusetts, commissioned July
I, 1776; was one of a company formed to drive away the car-
penters working on a British mast-ship at Bath, at the time of
the battle of Concord and Lexington; was in the party that
attacked a British privateer at Jones Eddy, which had chased
rn American schooner into the Kennebec river. They drove
away the privateer, killing some of her crew, but with the loss
of their captain, Nathaniel Springer.
Mary Clark was a daughter of CAPT. lOHN CLARK,
who served in the Revolutionary War and is said to have been
a member of the "Boston Tea Party.''
References: Annals of Iowa, Vol. 2, No. 8, pp. 569-570.
Records in office of Secretary of Commonwealth of Massa-
chusetts. Applications of James Henry Springer and Joseph
Alden Springer, National Nos. 5340 and 5341, Empire State
142
Society, S. A. R., and of Philip Foster Turner, National No.
6843, Maine Society, S. A. R. History of Bath, Maine.
64 EDGAR WILLIAMS STANTON 4764
College Professor, Ames. Born October 3, 1850.
Admitted June 3, 1895.
Fritz Henry Stanton Mary Rounds.
Asa Stanton Rhoda Bartlett.
Asa Stanton Keziah' Kimball.
ASA STANTON served in the Revolutionary War as a
private in Capt. Edward Mott's Company, raised for the de-
fense and protection of New London, Connecticut, in 1776.
He also served in the navy of the Colonies, in the same war,
and was captured in a naval encounter and was long con-
fined in the British prison ship "Jersey."
References: Records in the ofiice of the Adjutant General
of Connecticut.
120 LEO EUGENE STEVENS 10470
Bank Cashier. Ottumwa. Born June 11, 1872.
Admitted May 30, 1898.
William H. Stevens Mary M. Dennis.
Caswell Dennis Cyrena Yadon.
William Proctor Yadon Margaret Capps.
Joseph Yaden Mary Pennybaker.
JOSEPH YADEN enlisted at Martinsburg, Virginia, as
a drummer in the Virginia troops in the Revolutionary War,
and served two years, a part of the time under Capt. Corning
and Col. Crockett. He drew certificate for £70105 8d
pay on November 17, 1783, and in 1834 was allowed a pen-
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sion of $88.00 per annum, at which time he was residing in
Granger County, Tennessee, where he died.
References: Records of the Pension Bureau, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D. C, and State Library, Rich-
mond, Virginia.
21 JOSEPH HENRY STRONG 4721
Retired, Des Moines. Born December 25, 1827.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
WilHam Strong Clarissa Howell.
Samuel Strong Experience Reeve Brewster.
Also:
William Strong Clarissa Howell.
Charles Howell Rachel Strong.
Nathaniel Strong Amy Brewister.
SAMUEL STRONG was appointed Second Lieutenant in
the East Orange or Cornwall Regiment of New York troops
September 15, 1775, and was re-appointed February 21, 1778
and later was Major in the same regiment.
NATHANIEL STRONG served as First Major in the
East Orange or Cornwall Regiment, New York Militia, com-
missioned September 15, 1775 and reappointed February 21,
1778. He was shot by Claudius Smith, a notorious Tory
and robber, and his gang, October 6, 1778 in his own home
at Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York, dying in-
stantly.
SAMUEL STRONG was wounded in the arm while pur-
suing the same gang in the Shunemunk Mountains in the same
county.
References: Governor George Clinton's Papers, State Li-
brary, Albany, New York. Eager's History of Orange County,
New York. Dwight's Genealogy of the Strong Family.
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78 JESSE WOODHULL STRONG 4778
Jeweler, Des Moines. Born February i, 1857.
Admitted April 16, 1896.
Joseph Henry Strong, No. 21
Mary Elizabeth Moffat.
William Strong. . . Clarissa Howell.
Samuel Strong. . . .Mrs. Experience Reeve Brewster.
Also:
Joseph Henry Strong ....
Mary Elizabeth Moffat.
William Strong. . . .Clarissa Howell.
Charles Howell . . . .Rachel Strong.
Nathaniel Strong. . Amy Brewster.
For services of SAMUEL STRONG and NATHANIEL
STRONG, see J. H. Strong, No. 21.
15 ALBERT STRONG 4715
Journalist, Winterset. Born October 27, 1861.
Admitted September 5, 1893.
Frederick Strong Elizabeth Angell.
Warner Strong Salome Burrell.
John S. Strong Tamar Whitney.
David Strong Sarah Warner.
DAVID STRONG served as Ensign in Capt. Amos Wal-
bridge's Company, from Stafford, Connecticut, in the Revo-
lutionary War, and was advanced to the rank of Captain dur-
ing the war.
References : Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of Connecticut. History of the Strong Family, by Benjamin
Dwight, Vol. 2, p. 1090.
COL. ALBERT WINFIELD 8WALM
THIRD PKESIDEXT
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51 ALBERT WINFIELD SWALM 4751
Editor, United States Consul, Montevideo, Uruguay, South
America. Oskaloosa. Born November 30, 1845.
Admitted November 28, 1894.
In the War of 1861 enHsted as a private in Company D,
Thirty-third Iowa Volunteer Infantry, November 9, 1863;
transferred to Company D, Thirty-fourth Iowa, July 12, 1863;
mustered out August 15, 1865; Colonel on retired list in Iowa
National Guard. Past President of this Society.
John E. Swalm Elizabeth Christ.
Henry Christ Elizabeth Shafer.
Henry Christ Margaret -.
Henry Christ, Sr Louisa — — .
HENRY CHRIST, SR., rendered notable service as a civil-
ian in the Revolutionary War, in Pennsylvania in procuring
and transporting supplies for troops ; in raising money for
bounties for enlistment and paying the same; in adjusting de-
preciation of the currency ; in procuring men for service in the
patriot armies ; and in assisting the quartermaster in billeting
troops.
HENRY CHRIST, IR., was Captain of a company in the
Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment, commissioned March 9, 1776
and continuing in the service of the colonies.
References: As to Henry Christ, Sr., Coloniel Records and
Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 5, pp. 605-734, Vol. 9, pp. 80-
133-196-237-347. As to Henry Christ, Jr., Pennsylvania
Archives, Vol. 10, p. 240, muster roll of company.
Ill WILLIAM HOLCOMBE TITUS 10461
Commercial Traveler, Keokuk. Born August 5, 1841.
Admitted December 10, 1897.
Lewis J. Titus Mary Holcombe.
Reuben Titus Catherine C.
Solomon Titus Susanna R.
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Also:
Louis J. Titus Mary Holcombe.
Emley Holcombe Mary Skillman.
John T. Skillnmn
SOLOMON TITUS was a private in Capt. Jacob Hough-
ton's Company of the First Hunterdon County Mihtia of New
Jersey during the War of the Revolution and was in the bat-
tles of White Plains, Trenton, Princeton and Monmouth.
JOHN T. SKILLMAN served as a private minute man in
the Militia of Hunterdon County, New Jersey during the War
of the Revolution.
References : Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of New Jersey.
i68 GUY JAMES TOMLISON 13068
Law Clerk and Stenographer, Morning Sun. Born July 10,
1877.
Admitted December 28, 1900.
James A. Tomlison Dora Andress.
Daniel S. Andress Elizabeth W. Mitchell.
Rev. Joseph Mitchell Mary Milligan Bassett.
Joseph Bassett Mary Milligan.
For services of JOSEPH BASSETT, see Fred Courts, No.
167.
71 JAMES ROCKWELL TORBERT 4771
Student Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Wholesale Druggist, Dubuque. Born July 3, 1874.
Admitted February 21, 1896.
George Landing Torbert
Margaretta Kellogg Rockwell.
James Rockwell Cynthia Kellogg.
Philo Rockwell Abigail Martin.
Walter Martin Sarah Turner.
Adam Martin Abigail Cheney.
147
CAPT. ADAM MARTIN served in the Revolutionary War
from Sturbridge, Massachusetts, from April to August, 1775,
at Cambridge, Massachusetts. From June, 1779 to Septem-
ber, 1 780, he served in Rhode Island on the Coast Defense.
References: Historical sketch of Sturbridge and South-
bridge, Massachusetts, by George David. Chase's History of
Worcester County, Massachusetts. Records in the State House,
Boston. Muster roll of Capt. Adam Martin's Company in
lx)ssession of Col. G. C. Martin, Washington, D. C.
63 FREDERICK SMITH THOMAS 4763
Physician and Surgeon, Council Bluffs. Born September
23, 1845-
Admitted May 16, 1895. Died August 13, 1899.
In the War of 1861 served as a private in Company A, One
Hundred and Thirty-seventh Illinois Volunteer Infantry
nearly to the close of the war.
Caleb Jackson Thomas Catherine Smith.
Caleb Jackson Thomas Lucy Roland.
CALEB JACKSON THOMAS served as a private in Capt.
Livingston's Company of Col. Malcom's Regiment, and also
in Capt. Truesdell's Company of Col. Van Heyster's Regi-
ment of the State Militia of New York in the Revolutionary
War.
References: New York State Archives, Vol. i.
61 JAMES KNOX POLK THOMPSON 4761
Banker, Rock Rapids. Born August 21, 18415.
Admitted April 3, 1895.
In the War of 1861 he served as a musician of Company
D of the Twenty-first Iowa Volunteer Infantry, enlisting at
the age of 16 years, and serving with that regiment through-
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out its term of hard service; participated in the battles of
Hartsville, Missouri, Port Gibson, Champion HiUs, Black
River Bridge, charge upon and siege of Vicksburg, Spanish
Fort, and Fort Blakely, was present at the bombardment of
Grand Gulf, and the running of the blockade at Vicksburg.
He was severely wounded at Vicksburg. He has served ten
years in the Iowa National Guard, attaining the rank of Colonel
and has been Department Commander of Department of Iowa,
Grand Army of the Republic. His father, Mathew Thomp-
son, was a Second Lieutenant in a Pennsylvania regiment in
the War of 1812.
Mathew Thompson Martha Spalding.
Abel Spalding Hannah Chase.
ABEL SPALDING served as a private under Capt. Charles
Nelson of Col. Benjamin Wright's Regiment Vermont troops
in the Revolutionary War, having enlisted in September, 1781,
at Cornish, New Hampshire, and w^as a pensioner of the
United States for such services.
References : Records of the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
89 JASPER THOMPSON 4789
Banker, Forest City. Born February 10, 1867.
Admitted January 15, 1897.
Mathew Thompson Martha Spalding.
Abel Spalding Hannah Chase.
For services of ABEL SPALDING, see James Knox Polk
Thompson, No. 61.
no JOHN FOSTER THOMPSON 10460
Banker and Attorney, Forest City. Born September 3, 1848.
In the War of 1861 enlisted in May, 1863, when less than
15 years old, in Company I, Eighth Iowa Cavalry, and in
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this organization and the Fourth Iowa Battery, to which he
was transferred, served as bugler until September, 1865, when
he was mustered out. Was Second Lieutenant Company E,
Iowa State University Military Battalion, in April, 1875.
Mathew Thompson Martha Spalding.
Abel Spalding Hannah Chase.
For services of ABEL SPALDING, see James Knox Polk
Thompson, No. 61.
105 BURT J. THOMPSON 10455
Banker, Forest City. Born May 19, 1872.
Admitted July 24, 1897.
Jasper Thompson Clara A. King.
Mathew Thompson Martha Spalding.
Abel Spalding Hannah Chase.
For services of ABEL SPALDING, see James Knox Polk
Thompson, No. 61.
104 GEORGE FRANCIS TROTTER 10454
Bank Clerk, Ottumwa. Born April 6, 1874.
Admitted July 17, 1897.
Thomas B. Trotter Sarah Florence Smith.
George W. Smith Martha A. Martin.
Amos Martin Sarah Vincent.
John Vincent Sarah Johnson.
JOHN VINCENT served as a private in the First Com-
pany of foot in a Battalion of the Eighth Virginia Regiment,
having enlisted May 15, 1777, at the age of 17 years, and
served until he was honorably discharged in May, 1783, hav-
ing earned by his six years' faithful service and received the
rank of Lieutenant.
Although but a boy, he was one of Washington's Con-
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tinentals at Braddock's defeat, and there is preserved in the
family of one ol his descendants in Tennessee a spear captured
by him from a French officer in that battle. He was three
years a comrade of Daniel Boone at the latter's fort near
Lexington, Kentucky, and became the first settler of the White-
water Valley, Indiana, and the hills and creeks of that coun-
try bear to this day the names he gave them. He died at
Brooksville, Indiana, January 26, 1837.
References: Records of the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C.
171 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN VAN DYKE
Lawyer, Columbus Junction. Born August 6, 1862.
Admitted January 29, 1901.
Lazarus H. Van Dyke Emily C. Van Dyke.
Peter Van Dyke Ada Blue.
William Van Dyck
WILLIAM VAN DYCK was a private in Captain Peter D.
Vroom's Company, Second Battalion, Somerset County, New
Jersey Militia, during the Revolutionary War.
References: Records in the office of the Adjutant General
of New Jersey.
28 EDMUND MARCH VITTUM 4728
Pastor, Grinnell. Born October 24, 1855.
Admitted January 18, 1894.
Stephen Vittum Ruth Ann Tappan.
Jonathan Tappan Dolly Beede Heard.
Chaples Heard Lucy March.
Daniel Heard Abigail Seavey.
DANIEL HEARD was a Captain in the Tenth Regiment
of New Hampshire Militia; also descended from James Haz-
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zard, a Corporal in Capt. Daniel Reynold's Company of Col.
Stephen Peabody's regiment of New Hampshire troops raised
in the summer of 1778 for the defense of Rhode Island,
through Jonathan Tappan above named, grandson of James
Hazzard above named.
References: New Hampshire Revolutionary rolls, Vol. i,
p. 244, Vol. 2, p. 449, Vol. I, p. 411, Vol. 2, pp. 402-464-466.
27 GEORGE WASHINGTON WAKEFIELD 4727
Lawyer and Judge, Sioux City. Born November 22, 1839.
Admitted December 26, 1893.
In the War of 1861 enlisted |as a private in Company F,
Forty-first Illinois Infantry ,and was discharged as First Ser-
geant August 20, 1864. His grandfather, Joseph Wakefield,
in the War of 18 12, was in the action at Sackett's Harbor as
one of the militia called out on that occasion.
Orin Wakefield Hannah McCord.
Joseph Wakefield Susannah Sawyer.
Joseph Wakefield Relief Kendall.
Thomas Wakefield Dorcas Pratt.
Also:
Orin Wakefield Hannah McCord.
James McCord Mary Moore.
James McCord Jane Scroggs.
Also:
Orin Wakefield Hannah McCord.
Joseph Wakefield Susannah Sawyer.
Thomas Sawyer Susannah Wilder.
Also :
Orin Wakefield Hannah McCord.
James McCord Mary Moore.
Charles Moore Sarah Smith.
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Also:
Orin Wakefield Hannah McCord.
Joseph Wakefield Susannah Sawyer.
Joseph Wakefield Relief Kendall.
John Kendall
Also :
Orin Wakefield Hannah McCord.
Joseph Wakefield Susannah Sawyer.
Thomas Sawyer Susannah Wilder.
Jotham Wilder
JOSEPH WAKEFIELD was a private in Capt. Josiah
Crosby's Company in Col. James Reed's Regiment, New
Hampshire, and was in the battle of Bunker Hill. Enlisted
April 23, 1775, discharged October, 1775.
THOMAS WAKEFIELD was a Selectman of Amherst,
New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War, and had five
sons in the Patriot Army ranks, and was himself a supporter
of the war.
JAMES McCORD served as a Wagon Master in the Revo-
lution from North Carolina.
CHARLES MOORE was in Patriot Army in Revolution-
ary War from North Carolina.
THOMAS SAWYER enlisted from Lancaster, Massachu-
setts, in April, 1775, on the Lexington alarm, in Capt. Daniel
Robbins' Company, of Col. Asa Whitcomb's Regiment.
JOHN KENDALL was on the "Alarm List" in Capt. Oliver
Cummings' Company, of Dunstable, Massachusetts, and on
the roll of the Dunstable Company in 1777 and 1778.
JOTHAM WILDER enlisted from Lancaster, Massachu-
setts, in June, 1775 in Capt. Andrew Haskell's Company, of
Col. Asa Whitcomb's Regiment of Artillery.
Joseph Wakefield was officially reported to have lost in the
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campaign "i pair deerskin breeches, i cartouch box," and was
allowed $4.00 for one "regimental coat promised by the Col-
ony of New Hampshire."
Tradition says that while her husband was in the army,
ReHef Kendall cut and bound the wheat, an acre a day.
When ordered by a British officer to milk a cow, Jane
Scroggs did so, but turned the milk out on the ground as
soon as she had finished, so tradition says.
References: Secomb's History of Amherst, New Hamp-
shire, published at Concord, New Hampshire. 1883, PP- 368-
369-370. Records in the office of the Adjutant General, Con-
cord, New Hampshire. New Hampshire State Papers, Vol.
I. Marvin's History of Lancaster, Massachusetts, published
1879, pp. 293-294-295. The Wakefield Memorial, published
1897, pp. 46-49, 57-59. Nason's History of Dunstable, Mass-
achusetts.
127 LESTER FISH WAKEFIELD 12102
Civil Engineer, Sioux City. Born June 22, 18I52.
Admitted January 18, 1899.
Jonathan Wakefield Calista Carpenter.
Jonathan Wakefield Minwell Stannard.
Samuel Wakefield Mary Davenport.
SAMUEL WAKEFIELD was a private in Capt. John Put-
nam's Company of Col. Ebenezer Larned's Regiment of
Massachusetts troops and marched on the Lexington alarm,
April 19, 1775, and served fourteen days; served as a Cor-
poral in Capt. F. Shaw's Company from September 7 to De-
cember 31, 1775; served as a private in Capt. Samuel Read's
Company of Col. Josiah Whitney's Regiment from December,
1776 to March, 1777, two months and twenty-two days; served
as a Sergeant in Capt. Henry Dyer's Company of Col. Foster's
154
Regiment from August 15 to August 22, 1777, seven days,
and from September 21 to October 9, 1779, eighteen days;
served in Capt. Dyer's Company in Col. John Allen's Regiment
from March 9 to May i, 1780, one month and twenty- two
days; served as a Sergeant in Capt. John Hall's Company in
Col. Benjamin Foster's Regiment from August 7 to Septem-
ber 7, 1779.
References: Revolutionary War Archives of Massachu-
setts. The Wakefield Memorial, p. 155.
118 EMORY CHAPMAN WORTHINGTON 10468
Accountant, Des Moines. Born November 23, 1870.
Admitted April 18, 1898.
Captain of Company H, Fifty-first Iowa Infantry United
State Volunteers and served in the Spanish- American War
in the United States, and in the Philippine insurrection in the
Philippines. Mustered into service May 30, 1898, honorably
mustered out November 2, 1898.
Chester Butler Worthington Mary Chapman.
Thomas Bartlett Worthington Eliza Mack.
Joseph Worthington Mary A. Bulkley.
Eliphalet Bulkley
Also:
Chester Butler Worthington Mary Chapman.
Joseph H. Chapman Martha Wooley.
Charles Chapman Mary Henshaw.
Joseph Chapman Lois Burchard.
ELIPHALET BULKLEY \n2,s Captain of a Company of
Connecticut troops who marched to the defense of Boston
after the afifair of Lexington in April, 1775, and was reap-
pointed Captain of a Company by the General Assembly of
Connecticut at the May session, 1778; he was a member of
155
the General Assembly of Connecticut of 1778 and 1779; pro-
moted to Lieutenant Colonel in May, 1780.
JOSEPH CHAPMAN served as a private in Capt. Thomas
Knowlton's Company, from Ashford, Connecticut, who
marched to the relief of Boston on the Lexington alarm of
April, 1775, and served nine days; served as Ensign in Col.
Jedediah Huntington's Seventeenth Regiment of Continental
troops in 1776, which regiment was engaged in the battle of
Long Island, August 27, 1776, and was surrounded and lost
heavily in prisoners among whom was Ensign Joseph Chap-
man; served as First Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the
Fourth Regiment, Connecticut line formation, John Durkee,
Colonel, from September 13, 1778 to , 1781 and was in
the battles of Germantown and Monmouth ; wintered at Val-
ley Forge, 1 777- 1 778; wintered at Morristown, New Jersey,
1 779- 1 780, was a Second Lieutenant in a Connecticut Regi-
ment in 1777, and was pensioned under Act of 1818.
References : Historical Collections from Official Records
and Files of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War
of the Revolution, by R. R. Hinman, pp. 22 and 207. Rec-
ords of the State of Connecticut, 1778 to 1780, Vol. 2, by
Charles J. Hoadley, LL.D. State Librarian, published in ac-
cordance with resolutions of the General Assembly, pp. 122-
130-170. Records of the office of the Adjutant General of
Connecticut.
155 CHESTER BUTLER WORTHINGTON 13055
Accountant. Des Moines. Born November 17, 1843, Le-
banon, Pennsylvania.
Admitted May 8, 1900.
In the War of 1861, enlisted September 13, , in the
Sixth Wisconsin Light Artillery, and served as non-commis-
sioned officer (gunner) until October 10, 1864; commissioned
156
Captain and Assistant Quartermaster May lo, 1898, and
served in Cuba and elsewhere until mustered out August 14,
1899, on resignation.
Thomas Bartlett Worthington Elsie Mack.
Joseph Worthington Mary E. Bulkley.
Eliphalet Bidklcy
For services of ELIPHALET BULKLEY, see Emory
Chapman Worthington, No. 118.
31 WILLIE CUTTER WYMAN 4731
Merchant, Ottumwa. Born August 12. 1849.
Admitted February 13, 1894.
Edward Wyman, Jr Mary Ann Doyle.
Edward Wyman Hannah Cutter.
Richard Cutter Miriam Brown.
Richard Cutter Keziah Pierce.
RICHARD CUTTER served in Capt. Elisha Woodbury's
Company of Col. John Stark's Regiment of New Hampshire
troops at the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775, who fought
at the rail fence toward the Mystic River and three times
repulsed the British and, after holding their position until the
forces in the redoubt had withdrawn, retired from their posi-
tion in good order. Further services are mentioned in the
Revolutionary rolls of New Hampshire.
References: New Hampshire Revolutionary rolls. Vol. i
and 2, p. 185, etc.
HON. WILLIAM HENRY WHEELER
FOURTH PRESIDENT
157
39 WILLIAM HENRY WHEELER 4739
General Agent. Des Moines. Born October 8, 1848.
xA.dmitted March 7, 1894.
Ex-president of this Society.
Benjamin Wheeler Luthera Capron Cristy.
Capt. James Wheeler Hannah Andrus.
Comfort Wheeler Betsey Wilber.
Valentine Wheeler Sarah Goff .
Col. Philip Wheeler Martha Salisbury.
James Wheeler Grizel Squire.
Henry Wheeler Abigail Allen.
COMFORT WHEELER enlisted in April, 1780, at the
age of 14 years, at Shongum, New York, in Capt. Samuel
Duel's Company of New York troops, and served at Fishkill,
New York, in the "Continental Barn," and assisted in the
care of the horses, and was injured by being thrown from the
back of General Arnold's horse, which he was watering. He
served eight months. In May, 1781, he re-enlisted as a sub-
stitute for Squire Miller, in Capt. Keith's Company of Col.
Howe's Connecticut Regiment, and served three months. Sep-
tember 10, 1 78 1, he enlisted for one year in Capt. Corbin's
Company in the same Regiment, but was soon after detached
and served out his term of enlistment as waiter to General
Nathaniel Greene. Col. Philip Wheeler, grandfather of Com-
fort Wheeler, of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, was a Captain in
King George's War of 1744 to 1748. James Wheeler, son of
Comfort Wheeler, was a Captain in the War of 181 2. William
Constant Wheeler, 5^oungest son of Comfort Wheeler, served
in the Union Army in the War of the Rebellion.
References: Records of the Bureau of Pensions, Depart-
ment of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Vital Records of
Rehoboth. Massachusetts. Vital Records of Woodbury, Ver-
mont. Revolutionary Records of Connecticut.
158
113 BENJAMIN DUDLEY WHEELER 10463
Advertising Manager Journal, Kansas City, Missouri.
Born November 29, 1871.
Admitted January 17, 1898.
William Henry Wheeler, No. 39
Ella Rocelia Perrin.
Benjamin Wheeler Luthera Capron Cristy.
James Wheeler Hannah Andrus.
Comfort Wheeler Betsey Wilber.
For services of COMFORT WHEELER see William
Henry Wheeler, No. 39.
loi GEORGE HERBERT WHEELOCK 10451
Merchant, Ottumwa. Born September 18, 1850.
Admitted April 24, 1897.
In the War of 1861 enlisted as drummer September 21,
1861, in First Michigan Engineers' Mechanics; served a few
weeks. Enlisted and served two months in First United
States Fusileers. Enlisted February 12, 1862, in Company
D, Sixth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and was discharged
February 12, 1865. Had ten years' experience in National
Guard. Volunteered for Spanish War, but not successfully.
George Hall Wheelock . . Catherine Elizabeth Digby.
Jonathan Wheelock Sallie Hall.
Abijah Wheelock Bathsheba Bennett.
Thomas Bennett Lydia Longley.
Also:
George Hall Wheelock . . Catherine Elizabeth Digby.
Jonathan Wheelock Sallie Hall.
Joel Hall Lucretia Street.
Jesse Street Lois Cook.
Thadeus Cook
159
THOMAS BENNETT served as a minute man in Capt.
Benjamjin Houghton's Company of Col. John Whitciomb's
Regiment on the Lexington alarm, April 19, 1775, and
marched to Cambridge, seven and one-half days ; enlisted June
20, 1776, with Captain Haskell, and roll made up to August
I, 1777. Service, one year, one month and eleven days.
THADDEUS COOK was a Colonel in Third Connecticut
regiment, appointed in December, 1775; appointed Major in
Col. Andrew Ward's Regiment of Connecticut troops, and was
in battles of White Plains, Trenton and Princeton, in 1776
and 1777; Colonel Tentjli Connecticut Regiment, October,
1776; was Colonel in command of Regiment for repelling
Tryon's raid on Danbury, Connecticut, April, 1777, and in
command of a Connecticut Regiment under General Gates, "to
the Northwest" ; was a Colonel of one of the six Connecticut
Battalions raised in 1778 ; commanded his Regiment in the first
battle of Stillwater, September 19, 1777.
JESSE STREET served eight days in Capt. John Couch's
Company from Wallingford, Connecticut ; was a private on the
Lexington alarm in April, 1775.
JOEL HALL was a private in company named last above,
and on Lexington alarm ; was a private in Capt. Street Hall's
Company of Col. Webb's Connecticut Regiment ; was at Win-
ter Hill, near Boston, until December, 1775, serving from July
12 to December 19, 1775 ; was a private in Capt. Couch's Com-
pany of Col. Bradley's Battalion of Wadsworth's Brigade ; was
at Paulus Hook, New Jersey, in June, 1776; thence to the re-
lief of Fort Washington, and at the surrender of Fort Wash-
ington, November 16, 1776, was taken prisoner.
References: Connecticut Colonial Records, 1776 to 1778,
pp. 29-67-541. Connecticut Men in Revolutionary War,
pp. 109-435-492-510-513-619. Record of Charles P. Whit-
ney, Illinois Society S. A. R., No. 352. National 8152, Year
160
Book of J 886, pp. 272-273. Soldiers and Sailors of Massa-
chusetts in Revolutionary War, Vol. i, p. 953.
83 ROMAINE ADRIAN WHITAKER 4783
Hardware Dealer, Waterloo. Born August 26, 1828.
Admitted December 24, 1896. Died March 23, 1899.
Jerome Whitaker Lydia North Deming.
Clemence Whitaker Alice Hall.
IVilUam Whitaker Amy Clemence.
Also :
Jerome Whitaker Lydia North Deming.
Daniel Deming Luama Treat .
David Deming Lydia Treat.
WILLIAM WHITAKER of Princeton, Massachusetts,
served as a drummer on the Lexington alarm, in Capt. Boaz
Moore's Company of Col. Ephriam Doolittle's Regiment ; also
served in Capt. Samuel Low's Company of Col. Benjamin
Symonds' Regiment at Bennington, August 16, 1777, having
enlisted August 14, and was discharged August 19, 1777, and
served again two days in 1780, on "Alarm to Northward."
DAVID DEMING served nearly two years in the Conti-
nental Army toward the close of the Revolutionary War as a
private of Capt. Wright's Company of Col. Wells' Regiment
of Connecticut troops, and his widow received a pension there-
for.
References : Records in the office of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. Records of Bureau of Pensions, Department
ot the Literior, Washington, D. C.
161
128 LYMAN WILLIAM WHITE 12103
Editor, Woodbine. Born March 20, 1857.
Admitted February 21, 1899.
John Randolph White EHzabeth Boyle.
Lyman White Mary Gary.
Isaac White Priscilla Moffatt.
Isaac White, Sr
Also :
John Randolph White .Elizabeth Boyle.
Lyman White Mary Gary.
Richard Cary —
ISAAC WHITE, IR., enlisted in Gapt. Enos Parker's Gom-
pany of Gol. Benjamin Symond's Regiment, July 9, 1777, and
was discharged July 31, 1777, in Berkshire Gounty, Massachu-
setts Militia, sent to re-enforce the Gontinental Army at
Ticonderoga; enlisted again in same Gompany August 14,
1777, to re-enforce Gontinental forces at Bennington, and was
discharged August 19, 1777, having been wounded in battle
of Bennington; enlisted October 13, 1780, in Lieut. John Kill-
win's Gompany in the same Regiment, which marched to Ver-
mont by order of General Eellows, and was discharged Octo-
ber 16, 1780.
COLONEL RICHARD CARY served for a time as aide-
de-camp on the staff of General Washington.
References : Archives in the office of the Secretary of the
Gommonwealth of Massachusetts. Records of the town of
Greenwich, Massachusetts.
162
115 HARWOOD O. WHITNEY 10465
Capitalist, Keokuk. Born April 17, 1844.
Admitted April 14, 1898.
In the War of 1861, at the age of 17 years, enlisted in
Company C, Third Regiment, Iowa Cavalry, and served three
years; was with General S. R. Curtis in his campaign in the
Southwest, and in battle of Pea Ridge, in 1862, and on ex-
piration of term of service was recommended by General Cur-
tis and General Halleck for a lieutenancy in the Regular
Army.
Leonard Whitney Ann Jennett Harwood.
Ashael Harwood Temperance Parmalee.
Gilbert Parmalee Zipporah Williams.
William WiWmns 1
WILLIAM WILLIAMS marched in Capt. Daniel Barnes'
Company from Marlboro, Massachusetts, on the Lexington
alarm, April 19. 1775, as a private soldier, and served twenty-
eight days.
References: Lexington Alarm, Vol. 2, p. 202. Massa-
chusetts Manuscripts State Archives.
92 WALTER MT^ENZIE WHITTEMORE 4792
Lawyer, Lisbon. Born March 25, 1867.
Admitted January 30, 1897.
Charles Peter Whittemore
Gertrude Elizabeth McKenzie.
Joel Whittemore . . .Rachel Rebecca Brown.
Peter Whittemore . .Elizabeth Baker.
163
Also:
Charles Peter Whittemore
Gertrude Elizabeth McKenzie.
Joel Whittemore . . . .Rachael Rebecca Brown.
Jonathan Brown . . . Elizabeth Huntoon.
Benjamin Huntoon .Mary Dearborn.
Also :
Charles Peter Whittemore
Gertrude Elizabeth McKenzie.
Joel Whittemore . . . .Rachael Rebecca Brown.
Jonathan Brown . . . Elizabeth Huntoon.
Joseph Brown Ann Brown.
PETER WHITTEMORE served as a private in Capt. Ed-
ward Freye's Company of Col. Cilley's Regiment of New
Hampshire troops in the Continental Army in the Revolu-
tionary War.
BENJAMIN HUNTOON was the first man to enlist in
Capt. James Shepard's Company of New Hampshire troops
in the Revolutionary War. He afterward enlisted in Capt.
Ebenezer Webster's Company of Colonel Stickney's Regiment,
in Stark's Brigade, for Bennington and Stillwater, and after-
wards was in Webster's Company of Colonel Nichols' Regi-
ment for service in Rhode Island.
JOSEPH BROWN was a soldier in the Revolutionary War
from 1775 to 1780 inclusive; was in Capt. Hay ward's Com-
pany, in Capt. Ebenezer Webster's Company, and in Col.
Mooney's Regiment, all New Hampshire troops.
References : Records of the Pension Bureau, Department
of the Interior, Washington, D. C. Vol. 14, New Hampshire
State Papers.
164
i6o GEORGE HUMPHREY YOUNG 13060
Commercial Traveler, Des Moines. Born July ig, 1856.
Admitted October 26, 1900.
David T. Young Sarah M. Humphrey.
Thomas S. Young Margrette Black,
Robert Young Martha Shields.
ROBERT YOUNG served as a private in Col. John Mur-
ray's Company, Second Pennsylvania Regiment, commanded
by Col. Walter Stev^art, having enlisted in February, 1778, for
the war. His name is borne on the roll for the month of April,
1780, the roll being dated May 2, 1780, without remark. His-
tory relates that he was wagon-master in the patriot forces.
References : Records in Pension Office, War Department,
Washington, D. C. Records of the Youngs, compiled by J.
Gilbert Young, M. D., 1869. History of Chester County,
Pennsylvania, by J. Smith Fusey and Gilbert Cope, April,
1 88 1, p. 780.
%xi TO^mnrtam
I
HENRY EIvDERKIN JEWETT BOARDMAN
Died April 14, 1899
4701
12
CHARLES EDWARD BOARDMAN
Died November 19, 1897
4712
36
WILLIAM GRANT GOODWIN
Died October 23, 1898
4736
47
NATHANIEL ANSON MERRELL
Died December 21, 1896
4747
52
LEVI HILLS
Died July 15, 1899
4752
63
FREDERIC SMITH THOMAS
Died August 13, 1899
4763
11
IRA BURWELL RYAN
Died June 19, 1899
4777
83
ROMAINE ADRIAN WHITAKER
Died March 23, 1899
4783
136
WILLIAM HUGHES MORRISON
12111
Died August 24, 1900
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Ambrose, Robert 86
Angeny or Ankeny, Peter 35
Asbury, Joseph 36
Ashley, David 107
Ayres, Jonathan 37
Bailey, Gideon 68
Baker, Reuben, Sr 106
Baker, Thomas 39
Baldwin, Nathan 61
Baldwin, Henry 40
Banks, Linn 42
Banks, William 42
Bassett, Joseph 56-146
Bates, Oliver 140
Baxter, Moses 106
Beach, Samuel 72
Beach, Landa 60
Bennett, Thomas 159
Bennett, Rufus 62
Berry, John 44
Boardman, Dr. Nathaniel 46-8-52
Boardman,Capt.Nath'l.. 47-8-52
Bond, Richard 51
Buell, Elias 49
Bulkley, Eliphalet 154-156
Burnham, Elisha 115
Butler, Joel 115
Blair, William 50
Blair, Alexander 50
Brayton, James Wheaton. ... 77
Brice, James 65
Brown, William 42
Brown, Oliver 34
Brown, Joseph 163
Brown, Jonathan 53
Brundage, Masten 134-135
Camp, Asa 54
Gary, Archibald 91
Gary, Richard 161
Carver, Samuel 47-48-52
Colson, Josiah 43
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Cook, Edward 139
Cook, Thadeus 159
Copp, Joshua 105
Gorbin, Joshua 54
Gushing, Caleb (1) 85
Gushing, Caleb (2; 85
Gutter, Richard 156
Ghamplin, William 58
Chapman, Joseph 155
Chase, Jonathan 59
Chittenden, Thomas 53-82
Church, John 86
Clark, Norman 38
Clark, Wilham 38
Crockett, Joseph 109
Christ, Henry 145
Christ, Henry, Jr 145
Deming, David 160
Denison, Amos 120
Denison, Joseph 120
Dewey, Oliver 63
Dewey, Moses 2nd 63
Dey, Theunis 64
Dey, Peter 64
Dillie, David 56
Downer, John 94
Dunham, Obediah 93
Dutton, James 67-68
Drake, Daniel 84
Eells, Samuel 61
Eberhart, Adolphus 68
Elderkin, Jedediah 46-48-52
Evans, Andrew 71
FiNLEY, Robert 54
Foster, William 80
Furbush, Charles 49
George, Joseph 78
Gere, Rezin 74
Goodwin, Seth 76
Goodwin, Charles 75
Gleason, Micajah 39
Griess, Ernest 86
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Hadley, George 78
Hall, Joel 159
Hamlin, Nathaniel 79
Harris, James 112
Harris, Jane 112
Harvey, Amasa 134-135
Hazen, Benjamin 81
Hazzard, James 150
Heard, Daniel 150
Herriott, Ephraim 65
Herriott, Andrew 65
Hills, Medad 83
Hoagland, Abraham 83
Hooker, Thomas Hart 137
Hollister, Thomas 2nd 55
Hoskins, Eli 85
Hoskins, William 85
Hotchkiss, Jason 96
Hotchkiss, Truman 67
Hunt, Timothy 87-88
Huntington, Jabez 46-48-52
Huntoon, Benjamin 163
Hurlbut, Rufus 122
Huston, WilUam 136
Hutchins, Gordon 89
Ives, Joseph 92-93
Jefferson, Thomas 91
Job, Morris 51
Job, Archibald 51-69
Job, Thomas 69
Keatley, Christopher 92
Kendall, John 152
Kendall, Relief 153
Kent, Dan 94
Kent, Cephas 95
King, Caleb 96
Knapp, David 131-132
Knowlton, Benjamin 57-58
Lake, Joseph, Jr 80
Lane, Alexander 97
Lane, Elkinah 124
Leavenworth, Ebenezer 119
Lee, John 131-132
Leggett, Abraham 98
Logan, Samuel 98-99-110
Loper, Abraham 100
Loring, Daniel 101-102
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Loring, Nathaniel 101-102
Lyon, Matthew 53-82
Manchester, William 102
Manchester, John 102
Martin, Adam 147
Mason, David 126
Melendy, Thomas 103
Merrell , Aaron 71
Merrill, Nathaniel 104
Millard, Abiather 106
Moore, Charles 152
Moore, Samuel 60
More, John Ill
Morrill, Hibbard 103
Mott, John 112
MunBell, Silas 113
Munsell, Jacob 113
McCord, James 152
McCrary, James. 113
McFarren, William 66
McGeehon, Duncan 114
Newcomb, Hezekiah 115
Nicholas, Wilson Cary 91
Nicholas, Robert Carter 91
Nourse, James 116
Ormsby, Nathaniel 117
Packard, Nehemiah 118
Parke, Benjamin 74
Peterson, John 95
Pearce, John 121
Peck, Gideon 107
Peck, George 107
Porter, Robert 37
Phillips, Josiah 108
Piatt, Isaac 61
Prescott, Jeremiah 121
Randolph, Thomas M 91
Raymond, Lemuel 123
Reed, John 85
Richards, Nathaniel 42
Richardson, Wyman 124
Rood, Daniel 125
Rowley, Joseph L 72
Russell, Jonathan 125-126
Ryan, John 126
Rhodes, William 88
Sarin, Jonathan 127
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Sage, Benjamin 127
Sawyer, Thomas 152
Sawyer, Ephraim 129
Sawyer, Ephraim, Jr 129
Secor, Isaac 130-131-132
Soper, Timothy 134-135
Sortor, Henry 136
Scott, John 66
Scroggs, Jane 153
Shattuck. Job 43
Shepard, Jacob 137
Skillman, John T 146
Smith, John 91
Smith, Ithamar 116
Spalding, Abel 148-149
Spalding, John 139
Spalding, Simon 138
Springer, Nathaniel 141
Stanton, Asa 142
Strang, John 132
Street, Jesse 159
Streeter, Barzillai 124
Streeter, Joseph 124
Strong, Samuel 143-144
Strong, Nathaniel 143-144
Strong, David 144
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Swingle, George 128
Tallman, Benjamin 77
Titus, Solomon 146
Titus, Timothy 70
Tyler, Abraham 45
Thomas, Caleb Jackson 147
Upton, William 43
Van Dyck, William 150
Vincent, John 149
Wakefield, Samuel 153
Wakefield, Joseph 152
Wakefield, Thomas 152
Waldo, Zachariah 80
Walker, Joseph 41
Welton, John 45
Wilder, Jotham 152
WilHams, WiUiam... .35-150-162
Wheeler, Comfort 157-158
Whitaker, William 160
White, Andrew 133
White, Benjamin 75-132
White, Isaac 161
Whittemore, Peter 163
Yaden, Joseph 62-142
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